With the 6th International Conference on Bovine TB under way today in Cardiff, Lesley Docksey reports on Defra's latest statistics. BTB in England is falling - and it's falling fastest where the strongest biosecurity measures are in place, confirming the experience of Wales and Scotland.
… in 2013, down from 9,287 in 2012, following peaks of 11,671 in 2009, and 11,401 in 2008. … 2008, and measures were tightened in 2009. Speaking at the 6th international conference on …
A programme to be broadcast on BBC2 promoting badger culling as the answer to bovine TB is praised in the corporation's flagship Radio Times, writes Lesley Docksey. But both are criticised by experts for their inaccuracy and bias. The main reservoir for bTB is, and always has been, the cattle themselves - and that's where the real solutions begin.
… because of bovine TB was reduced from a peak of 25,000 in 1959, to less than 10% of … with that. She continues: "No one is speaking up for the dairy industry...We have …
Paterson's speech to Parliament on the continuation of the badger cull was not so much a masterpiece of deception, writes Lesley Docksey, as a crude botch-up of errors, wrong statistics and a failure to understand the very real problem of TB in cattle.
… for thinking the culls took place in the Peak District or Northumberland Moors in the …