{"id":135,"date":"2016-03-29T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-03-29T23:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:59:35","slug":"rationale-for-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/29\/rationale-for-cull\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationale For Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why should badgers be culled?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rising infection rates\u00a0of bTB in cattle in Britain may be correlated with lack of badger population control<\/li>\n<li>Badger culling in Ireland effective (Kao, 2012)<\/li>\n<li>Acoording to Defra (Department of Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs):\n<ul>\n<li>To protect public health<\/li>\n<li>To enhance animal welfare and health<\/li>\n<li>To meet European Union&#8217;s food safety regulations<\/li>\n<li>To decrease costs to farmers and taxpayers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should badgers be culled? Rising infection rates\u00a0of bTB in cattle in Britain may be correlated with lack of badger population control Badger culling in Ireland effective (Kao, 2012) Acoording to Defra (Department of Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs): To protect public health To enhance animal welfare and health To meet European Union&#8217;s food safety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/29\/rationale-for-cull\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rationale For Cull<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}