{"id":15,"date":"2016-03-28T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-03-30T22:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:25:51","slug":"alternatives-to-free-shooting-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/28\/alternatives-to-free-shooting-cull\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Free Shooting Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/no-hunting-no-shooting-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"no hunting no shooting\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/no-hunting-no-shooting-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/no-hunting-no-shooting-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/files\/2016\/03\/no-hunting-no-shooting.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free shooting badger culls, currently used in Britain, is not considered by many scientists and animal rights activists to be the most humane or effective method of controlling bovine tuberculosis. There exists\u00a0a number of different ways that this disease\u00a0can potentially be controlled, and may be used in combination with badger culling for increased efficiency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vaccinations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Livestock Management &amp; Surveillance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fertility Control<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, alternatives to a free shooting method for culls may involve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gassing Setts (underground badger dens)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cage Trapping\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free shooting badger culls, currently used in Britain, is not considered by many scientists and animal rights activists to be the most humane or effective method of controlling bovine tuberculosis. There exists\u00a0a number of different ways that this disease\u00a0can potentially be controlled, and may be used in combination with badger culling for increased efficiency: Vaccinations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/28\/alternatives-to-free-shooting-cull\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternatives to Free Shooting 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":[486623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}