Anglers are a very passive bunch in general.
We sit by the water, enjoy whatever surrounds us and try and outwit something with a brain the size of a pea.
During our waterside excursions we enjoy the wildlife that often wanders or swims along, rarely if ever does an angler try to harm the wildlife around him unless its one of those big black demons in his swim or an errant rat after his bait or lunch when we clearly know what's happening and does something about it!
My question is why, oh why are we allowing 5000 or more Badgers to be killed when it has never been proved just HOW Badgers infect cattle with TB ?
Badgers sleep in an underground chamber, often with several exits, in family groups, bedding down in large nests of grass, moss or occasionally straw from a nearby field, with every family member breathing and re breathing the same air.
They go out at night to feed returning at dawn to sleep throughout the daylight hours.
Throughout the entire winter months farmers keep their cattle 24/7 in semi open covered barns where they provide a deep bed of straw plus daily feed and 24/7 water. Because of the regular urinating and defecating (aka **** and ****) of the cattle the straw bed soon becomes completely sodden and begins to rot which in turn generates a very damp atmosphere. Fresh dry straw is added regularly but the damp rotting mass underneath in only removed (mucked out) once or twice throughout the entire winter.
Now....Ask yourself which environment provides the biggest TB threat?
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We sit by the water, enjoy whatever surrounds us and try and outwit something with a brain the size of a pea.
During our waterside excursions we enjoy the wildlife that often wanders or swims along, rarely if ever does an angler try to harm the wildlife around him unless its one of those big black demons in his swim or an errant rat after his bait or lunch when we clearly know what's happening and does something about it!
My question is why, oh why are we allowing 5000 or more Badgers to be killed when it has never been proved just HOW Badgers infect cattle with TB ?
Badgers sleep in an underground chamber, often with several exits, in family groups, bedding down in large nests of grass, moss or occasionally straw from a nearby field, with every family member breathing and re breathing the same air.
They go out at night to feed returning at dawn to sleep throughout the daylight hours.
Throughout the entire winter months farmers keep their cattle 24/7 in semi open covered barns where they provide a deep bed of straw plus daily feed and 24/7 water. Because of the regular urinating and defecating (aka **** and ****) of the cattle the straw bed soon becomes completely sodden and begins to rot which in turn generates a very damp atmosphere. Fresh dry straw is added regularly but the damp rotting mass underneath in only removed (mucked out) once or twice throughout the entire winter.
Now....Ask yourself which environment provides the biggest TB threat?
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