{"id":2546,"date":"2012-10-14T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2012-10-14T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T08:54:13","slug":"more-on-the-uks-mindless-badger-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/10\/14\/more-on-the-uks-mindless-badger-cull\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the UK's \"mindless\" badger cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/oct\/13\/badger-cull-mindless\">Observer<\/a> carried this critique:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 13px;border-collapse: collapse;font-family: arial, sans-serif;color: #333333;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px\">Britain's top animal disease scientists\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theobserver\/2012\/oct\/14\/letters-observer\">have launched a devastating attack<\/a> on the government's \"mindless\"\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/badgers\">badger cull<\/a>, accusing ministers of failing to tell the truth and demanding the immediate abandonment of the killings. \u00a0The intervention by dozens of the nation's most senior experts, in a letter in the\u00a0<em>Observer<\/em>, comes as farmers prepare to begin the cull in Gloucestershire and Somerset, possibly as early as tomorrow. The government's own chief scientist has refused to back the killings. \u00a0More than 30 eminent animal disease experts describe the cull as a \"costly distraction\" that risks making the problem of tuberculosis in cattle worse and that will cost far more than it saves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 13px;border-collapse: collapse;font-family: arial, sans-serif;color: #333333;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px\">...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 13px;border-collapse: collapse;font-family: arial, sans-serif;color: #333333;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/environmentaleducationuk.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/14\/badger-update-cull-is-mindless-say-scientists\">Learn from Nature<\/a> carries this story, and has good links to other aspects of this inglorious episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's Observer carried this critique: Britain's top animal disease scientists\u00a0have launched a devastating attack on the government's \"mindless\"\u00a0badger cull, accusing ministers of failing to tell the truth and demanding the immediate abandonment of the killings. \u00a0The intervention by dozens of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}