{"id":141,"date":"2016-03-30T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=141"},"modified":"2016-03-31T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T07:27:17","slug":"the-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/the-cull\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/5366366-large-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"5366366-large\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/5366366-large-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/5366366-large-1.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the current situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rapid outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in Great\u00a0Britain<\/li>\n<li>14.3% cattle infected in Southwest Britain<\/li>\n<li>6.4% cattle infected on average for rest of country<\/li>\n<li>All bTB-positive cows\u00a0<strong>MUST\u00a0<\/strong>be culled (euthanized for disease eradication)\n<ul>\n<li>Due to potential risk to humans<\/li>\n<li>To prevent infectious spread to other cattle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Major losses to producers that need to cull livestock herds<\/li>\n<li>Taxpayers -&gt; $$<\/li>\n<li>British government implements policies to cull badgers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why cull badgers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badgers deemed significant wildlife vector for bTB transmission to cattle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why is it so controversial?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badgers not only bTB source<\/li>\n<li>Scientific reports question effectiveness of current badger culls to stamp out bTB<\/li>\n<li>Negative welfare implications to badgers from method of cull<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read on to find out more about badger culling in the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the current situation? Rapid outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in Great\u00a0Britain 14.3% cattle infected in Southwest Britain 6.4% cattle infected on average for rest of country All bTB-positive cows\u00a0MUST\u00a0be culled (euthanized for disease eradication) Due to potential risk to humans To prevent infectious spread to other cattle Major losses to producers that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/the-cull\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 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-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}