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Badger Culls (Assessment)

Proceeding contribution from Tracey Crouch (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 4 November 2014. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Badger Culls (Assessment).

We keep on hearing about the New Zealand experiment, but it had other aspects, such as improved movement and better biosecurity measures. We need to ensure that we have such things as part of a whole package.

I am personally opposed to the badger cull, and I think we should look at other ways, as my hon. Friend the Member for St Albans (Mrs Main) said, of dealing with the issue, such as vaccination, which is what is happening in Wales. We are seeing a reduction in bovine TB; indeed, I read somewhere, although I cannot find the precise source, that there has been a reduction of 48%. We have to look at these issues. However, the cull was not the right way forward, and it is not the right method now.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
587 c192WH 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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