Viva!Life Issue 51 | Winter 2012
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13 December 2012
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Badgers are harmless, loved, unique and secretive. Yet they face illegal trapping, baiting with dogs and 50,000 die on the roads each year in Britain. Now they face their biggest threat yet – the dairy industry, backed by an idiotic government who ignore science, rationality and public opinion! As you’ll know, British badgers are still being accused by farmers of being the main culprits in spreading bovine TB. The real culprits are farming practices so intense that dairy cows face numerous infections and rarely survive beyond five years old. TB tests are often inaccurate, allowing disease carriers to re-infect their herd or to be transported around the UK, infecting new herds.
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