Minister’s claim badger cull cuts cattle TB is attacked by experts
by Jamie Doward from Environment | The Guardian on (#418SE)
George Eustice's boast that government strategy is working called untrue by vets and animal specialists
Government claims that the controversial badger cull is reducing tuberculosis rates in cattle have been undermined by a group of leading vets and animal welfare experts who have shared data that, they say, confirms it has made no difference.
Last month the farming minister George Eustice said: "Reductions in TB cases in Somerset and Gloucestershire are evidence that our strategy is delivering results." But the group, which includes Iain McGill, the former government vet who helped expose the BSE cover-up, Adam Grogan, head of wildlife at the RSPCA, and Mark Jones, head of policy at the Born Free Foundation, disagrees.
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