MP should research bovine TB issue

Thursday, December 11, 2008, 22:30

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I'M shocked that Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative chairman of the
all-party Parliamentary Group for Dairy Farming, has apparently not even
bothered to research this issue properly, Dairy group MP hints Tories
will act on bovine TB, Echo, December 2.

If he had, he would have found that Rosie Woodroffe's internationally
peer-reviewed study of autumn, 2007, shows clearly that if you
concentrate on cattle measures and leave badgers alone , the TB
infection rate in badgers actually goes down massively within one
generation. But if you cull badgers, it goes up.