How disheartening it is to
constantly listen to the powers that be harp on and on about badgers and the
wider implications of bovine TB, the latter in their opinion needing the
proposed badger cull to sort out. In a week that has seen the birth of a future
king, you would assume the British government would be doing everything in its
power to ensure the future little might has got something to point a pair of binoculars
at. Always the same old tune is heard: “we’re still ten years away from finding
a vaccine for cattle against BTB” - they’ve been saying this for years! Like
all drugs, it is a fortune in manufacture and I personally think that this has
been the problem: not nearly enough investment. Surely the time is now right to
sensibly use a small percentage of the moneys that are frequently wasted in Brussles
to try and find a solution to the problem once and for all, as well as a
percentage of annual farming subsidy would go a long way to financing a future
vaccine for cattle. The grass has been steadily growing beneath our feet and
the problem, for whatever reason, is getting worse as this government - like
all other previous governments - pay lip service. If young Prince George, the
future King of England wants to grow up and see the type of countryside and all
the wonders of nature within it as we have all been lucky enough to witness, as
a nation we have got to soon wise up.
Bees are down, butterflies are down, most breeds of British birds are
down, invertebrates are down, native trees dying off, Ash, Oak, Chestnut. And,
if this was not already enough, we are now embarking on the annihilation of the
badger - environmentally we have to start doing more. I suppose one consolation
is that the young Prince will not be stung as many times as I was when I was a
kid.
Devon Cattle, enjoying life.
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