{"id":230,"date":"2016-03-30T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T04:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=230"},"modified":"2016-03-30T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:17:53","slug":"policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/images\/chrome\/apple-touch-icons\/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The development of legislation dealing with badger culling for bTB control is extremely complex as multiple issues need to be considered (Garner et al., 2007):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Potential risk to human health<\/li>\n<li>Consumers worried over contaminated livestock<\/li>\n<li>Adequate funding for vaccines and being able to diagnose bTB<\/li>\n<li>Impact on economic relationship with trading partners<\/li>\n<li>Epidemiological and economic models<\/li>\n<li>Public opinion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently there are a number of policies and regulations regarding this issue, described in the following posts. However, at the moment there is <strong>no United Kingdom wide policy<\/strong> implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of legislation dealing with badger culling for bTB control is extremely complex as multiple issues need to be considered (Garner et al., 2007): Potential risk to human health Consumers worried over contaminated livestock Adequate funding for vaccines and being able to diagnose bTB Impact on economic relationship with trading partners Epidemiological and economic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/30\/policies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Policies<\/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":[26973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}