BBC Puts Cows' View

No sooner had I posted Badger Update than I sat down to watch BBC News at 1pm and was appalled by the ignorance and bias of the BBC's coverage of this story. It showed us a cuddly longhorn cow with her calf - a real Ahhhh factor - under threat of death, then interviewed the owner, who is convinced badgers infect cattle. This outweighed any attempt at objectivity in the script. And there was no mention of Ireland, where the badger has been virtually exterminated and the incidence of bovine TB is twice what it is over here. This proves beyond any shadow of doubt that it is the unrestricted movement of cattle, not the badger, that spreads TB. Even the BBC's website headline Badger cull 'not cost effective' implies badger culling might be a good thing if it weren't so expensive! And this is the TV channel that gave us Springwatch and exhorted us to Do One Thing For Wildlife (CLICK). What a hypocrite! Click the title link, read the Beeb's tosh and email a complaint.