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Badger Culls (Assessment)

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

No. You want me to finish by 20 to 4, Mr Caton, so I will keep going.

We have seen, anecdotally, a reduction. If we can hold our nerve and ensure that we carry out the culls in a humane way, we will reduce the number of infected badgers in the countryside, in those areas with a high number of TB cases. If we use traps wherever necessary, carry out controlled shooting and ensure that we carry out the cull properly, we will see TB, first, reduce in this country and, eventually, we will eradicate it. If we do not take this action, we will never eradicate the disease. Farmers need to see a good future not only for them, but for their families. Farming is about generations of farmers, generations of cattle and generations of breeding of cattle. That is all being destroyed by this disease, and unless we take this firm action, we will not eradicate the disease.

3.38 pm

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
587 c196WH 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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