{"id":170,"date":"2016-03-30T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=170"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:25:17","slug":"defra-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/defra-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Defra (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kentandessex-ifca.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Defra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/20130402151656\/http:\/\/archive.defra.gov.uk\/foodfarm\/farmanimal\/diseases\/atoz\/tb\/documents\/bovinetb-scientificexperts-110404.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a> held between numerous scientific experts at the Department of Environment, Food, &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra), in order for a badger cull to be effective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cull rate needs be at least\u00a0<strong>70%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Occurs for min. <strong>4 years<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Encompasses min. <strong>150 square km<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Predicted net benefit after a decade?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>16% decrease<\/strong> in bTB on average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However,\u00a0is this net benefit enough to be able to control bTB? There are conflicting opinions among the public. Farmers from the National Farmers&#8217; Union support the cull and argue this reduction in bTB is enough, whereas\u00a0animal rights activists such as from the Badger Trust cite badger culling as ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a meeting held between numerous scientific experts at the Department of Environment, Food, &amp; Rural Affairs (Defra), in order for a badger cull to be effective: Cull rate needs be at least\u00a070% Occurs for min. 4 years Encompasses min. 150 square km Predicted net benefit after a decade? 16% decrease in bTB on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/defra-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defra (2011)<\/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-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}