{"id":138,"date":"2016-03-30T00:13:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T07:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=138"},"modified":"2016-03-31T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T07:23:03","slug":"rationale-against-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/rationale-against-cull\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationale Against Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiananimalsvoice.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/badger-comic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why shouldn&#8217;t badgers be culled?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scientific reports show no clear evidence<\/strong> that badger culls would be effective in controlling bTB in cattle\n<ul>\n<li>Unless carried out over large areas due to perturbation effect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>May result in <strong>animal welfare<\/strong> problems\u00a0if\u00a0badger not shot cleanly\n<ul>\n<li>Could maim, cause immense suffering in badgers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Negative ecosystem effects\n<ul>\n<li>Exact badger population numbers unknown<\/li>\n<li>Could result in <strong>local extinction of badgers<\/strong> in Great Britain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact on ecosystem unknown<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Badgers <strong>not only route of transmission<\/strong> to cattle!\n<ul>\n<li>Many other species susceptible<\/li>\n<li>Cattle-to-cattle transmission accounts for greatest source of bTB infection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>bTB <strong>risk to humans is very low<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Issues of <strong>public safety<\/strong> from free shooting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why shouldn&#8217;t badgers be culled? Scientific reports show no clear evidence that badger culls would be effective in controlling bTB in cattle Unless carried out over large areas due to perturbation effect May result in animal welfare problems\u00a0if\u00a0badger not shot cleanly Could maim, cause immense suffering in badgers Negative ecosystem effects Exact badger population numbers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/rationale-against-cull\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rationale Against 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-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}