{"id":773,"date":"2011-07-21T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-07-21T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:04:47","slug":"bad-day-for-badgers-but-a-great-controversial-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/07\/21\/bad-day-for-badgers-but-a-great-controversial-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day for Badgers but a great controversial Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, but inevitably perhaps, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defra.gov.uk\/news\/2011\/07\/19\/next-steps-to-tackle-bovine-tb-in-england-2\/\">Defra<\/a> seems to have sided with the views of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwemail.co.uk\/news\/badger-cull-welcomed-by-farmers-in-cumbria-1.860328?referrerPath=news\/\">farmers<\/a> over the interpretation of scientific evidence in relation to bovine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bva.co.uk\/atoz\/Bovine_Tuberculosis%20.aspx\">TB<\/a>. \u00a0Whilst proposing to cull badgers gives the public the impression of decisive action (unless you've been paying attention, that is), let's not think that this will solve any problems. \u00a0A good teaching case study though \u2014 carefully handled. \u00a0Here's one source of <a href=\"http:\/\/bovinetb.blogspot.com\/\">ideas<\/a> \u2013 and gory pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, but inevitably perhaps, Defra seems to have sided with the views of farmers over the interpretation of scientific evidence in relation to bovine TB. \u00a0Whilst proposing to cull badgers gives the public the impression of decisive action (unless you've...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","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\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}