24-02-2012, 09:46 AM
Mmm.....All this is getting interesting, I agree to an extent with what Paula says, I live down here in the Southwest and one of the emotive issues down here is that of culling of badgers to help control Bovine TB and the "Gaurdians of the countryside" efforts to try and repeal the hunting with dogs act which was introduced a few years back. On the Bovine TB front there seems to be a cosy relationship between the NFU's PR dept. and the local BBC broadcasting media, consistantly they put the Badger as one of the main causes of Bovine TB, however anyone with any kind of logic can see that the Badger is not the problem, the problem is intensive agriculture, if the Badger was the main cause then surely the desease would be classified as Meales Meales TB which it isn't....It's classified as Bovine TB...the cattle are the problem. The Badger is predominantly a woodland creature they pick up the Bovine TB when they stray into open land.
We have several Badger setts in our woodland and we worry about them as we are lovers of wildlife, don't get me wrong we are not Tree Huggers, however, we have lived in the sticks most of our lives and I have to say that public perception through the media does not reflect the reality of living in the sticks and what actually goes on behind closed doors.
It's the same on the hunting ban issue....exactly that...the "Gaurdians of the countryside" and the media constantly call it the hunting ban...It is not and never was a hunting ban it was a private members bill to introduce a ban on hunting with dogs only in an attempt to stop the cruel blood bath that always happens when a pack of dogs capture any living creature, you can still go out and shoot a fox as it's classed as vermin (sadly) or shoot anything else that is classed as vermin or game. On a personal note I can not see what sport there is in killing any wildlife that has a disadvantage unless it poses a seriouse threat to human life, so there you go.
Lawrence.
We have several Badger setts in our woodland and we worry about them as we are lovers of wildlife, don't get me wrong we are not Tree Huggers, however, we have lived in the sticks most of our lives and I have to say that public perception through the media does not reflect the reality of living in the sticks and what actually goes on behind closed doors.
It's the same on the hunting ban issue....exactly that...the "Gaurdians of the countryside" and the media constantly call it the hunting ban...It is not and never was a hunting ban it was a private members bill to introduce a ban on hunting with dogs only in an attempt to stop the cruel blood bath that always happens when a pack of dogs capture any living creature, you can still go out and shoot a fox as it's classed as vermin (sadly) or shoot anything else that is classed as vermin or game. On a personal note I can not see what sport there is in killing any wildlife that has a disadvantage unless it poses a seriouse threat to human life, so there you go.
Lawrence.
