Badgers Debate

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Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Badgers

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Georgia
Tuesday 11th December 2012

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, I am a farmer but not a cattle man—

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My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Soulsby, is trying to get in.

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I thank the noble Lord. My Lords, in view of the vast compensation paid for the slaughter of cattle that react to the tuberculin test, and in view of Britain’s vast experience of vaccination of wildlife—not only of badgers but all over the world—what attention is being paid to the vaccination of badgers in this situation by using techniques that are commonly used elsewhere in the world in very difficult circumstances?

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