Battle Badgers Use Biological Warfare

The British, finally awakening to the dangers of the Animal Uprising™, are coming to the conclusion that they are being badgered. By real badgers using real biological agents. They are spreading bovine tuberculosis and the government is planning to fight back. They are going to OK the culling of infected badgers before they spread the disease to humans (which appears to be close to happening). Animal "rights" activists are, naturally, going ballistic.

The culls could start within weeks after the completion of a Government report into the role that badgers play in spreading the infectious disease bovine tuberculosis among cattle.

In the expectation of an imminent end to the moratorium on licences to kill badgers, farmers have earmarked areas of the country where the cull could begin, while the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is conducting four secret trials to find which is the most effective ways of killing badgers – snaring, trapping, shooting or gassing.

A move to permit culling, however, would be certain to provoke ferocious opposition from animal welfare groups, who insist it is not necessary and believe the spread of the disease is due to bad husbandry by farmers.

The Government research, by the Independent Scientific Group (ISG), began in 1998 and was accompanied by the moratorium on licences……..

…….TB in cattle cost the taxpayer more than £99 million last year, £40 million of which went to compensate farmers whose animals were slaughtered.

The disease is spreading fast along the "cattle belt", which runs from Cornwall, up the west of the country, to Cheshire. Most outbreaks have been in the southwest and the West Midlands, but there have been others in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Sussex and Wales.

There were 788 new suspected outbreaks in January and February compared with 703 in the same period of last year. There are reports of the disease spreading to domestic cats, which has provoked fears that this could lead to infections among humans. (Emphasis added)

The expected fierce opposition says rather a lot about the real drivers for the animal right folks, which is really a loathing for humans. Let's get serious for a moment, shall we? If you have a known disease carrier and the disease is spreading into animals which are in very close contact to humans, do you really think it is a bad idea to thin the population of the disease carrying animals? Will rat rights be the next frontier for the activists? Flea rights? amoeba rights? Where does it end? Seriously. Will antibiotics be banned because they are cruel to the bacteria?