http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 14:44:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143545 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:16:37 +0000 4ty2 143545@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>something black and white has to be killed guess you did not know how close you are to the truth. Magpies are actually going through cow dung for the beetles thay feed on, so once we spent millions of pounds on culling badgers who apparently attract bovine TB by eating the beetles from their dung and than keeping it we will have to start killing some other wildlife as the causative culprit. After having culled the badgers and the magpies I guess we might go for those vicars who visit the farmers and therefore spread the disease. As they are more frequently seen in the countryside there must be a clear link. Now who is wearing black and white in the city? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143455 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:28:42 +0000 Dick Everyman 143455@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for stars Flash - Alastair Sim would be great too! Got any bootleg? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143446 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:47:40 +0000 FlashArry 143446@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>.. or even Liz Smith ?</p> <p>A thoroughly marvellous post, Mr. E, many stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143435 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:08:24 +0000 Dick Everyman 143435@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Haha thanks Button. If Thora Hird was alive she'd make a great Granny Badger... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143431 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:55:16 +0000 button 143431@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I read this once and loved it, then I read it again in the voice of Alan Bennett and its even better. Try it... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143429 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:54:30 +0000 The All New Jeni B 143429@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Funny that, I've just had some fava beans. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143427 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:52:55 +0000 Dick Everyman 143427@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, I've started on the Chianti too... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143424 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:49:32 +0000 The All New Jeni B 143424@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's the mood of the evening. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143423 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:48:49 +0000 Dick Everyman 143423@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wow, very Hannibal Lecterish! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143422 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:46:00 +0000 The All New Jeni B 143422@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Butterflies sucking the blood of newborn lambs. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143418 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:37:41 +0000 Dick Everyman 143418@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>After you with the hyperdermic Jeni! Hopefully public opinion will stop the slaughter and expose this as a political appeasement for the landed gentry - just because they can't hunt foxes anymore...what's the next target? Dormice infecting black currant bushes? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143417 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:36:16 +0000 The All New Jeni B 143417@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Id, how impractical is it to innoculate the cattle against TB?<br /> Seems stupid that after years of giving badgers a protected status they're now being culled. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143416 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:31:32 +0000 Ironduke 143416@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hmmm. I think badgers are very beautiful creatures. Also ferocious.</p> <p>reasonable to remember though that if TB is diagnosed the cows get shot. Diagnose enough and the whole farm goes.</p> <p>So for many years Black and White cows have been getting shot after catching TB. Now for a wee while they're going to shoot badgers instead, to see if its arrests TB.</p> <p>Basically, someone in black and white is gonna get shot, and for decades its been the cows. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143412 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:03:37 +0000 The All New Jeni B 143412@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is so well written, it made me sad. (It also made me want to inject English farmers with TB).</p> <p>I could imagine all the poor little badgers fleeing.</p> <p>I hope they make it safely to Wales.</p> <p>C'mon the badgers!!! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143408 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:12:48 +0000 Dick Everyman 143408@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's to facilitate the Crows and Magpies... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143381 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:14:44 +0000 Squudge 143381@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I do wish they wouldn't turn them half inside out first </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143332 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:47:02 +0000 Dick Everyman 143332@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, Badger distribution always happens on a Sunday night where I live. I think it's a traditional countryside greeting for Monday morning commuters. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143327 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:41:43 +0000 Midfield Diamond 143327@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good idea and nicely written. </p> <p>I heard that farmers are seeking clarification on whether they have to drive around the countryside in the dead of night distributing culled badgers at the sides of roads in the same way as they do now with gassed ones. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49628#post-143303 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:02:32 +0000 Dick Everyman 143303@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sections of the M5 and the Severn Bridge were shut last night as thousands of badger refugees fled in convoy from villages in Gloucestershire and Somerset over the border to Wales.</p> <p>Badgers from both counties began to flee following the news that armed Government agents were advancing deep into their territory to perform a 70% cull.</p> <p>Whole badger families took to the roads as the threat of persecution and genocide escalated. Mothers and fathers comforted their young through driving rain as the procession advanced towards the Welsh border. Carrying white flags they ignored demands from angry toll booth operators for their crossing fees. Some badgers spoke of older and infirm badgers succumbing to the wheels of impatient juggernauts or simply lying down exhausted on the hard shoulder.</p> <p>Michaelwood Service Station was reported to be besieged as angry badgers queued and clawed for provisions in a desperate bid to fuel their journey towards the Welsh border. Starbucks denied that they were cashing in on the crisis by adding 25% to a standard cappucino.</p> <p>In a response to the situation David Heath, the Agriculture Minister, refuted suggestions that the Government was creating a politically sensitive cross-border situation. "I would like to reassure the little black-and-white creatures which everybody loves, that they are not all under threat" he said. "Nobody wants to see a single badger killed, however we do promise to perform a clean kill for hundreds more and, on this basis we urge the nation’s favourite wild creatures to return to their homes.”</p> <p>A spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said, "I am very worried. If badgers want to flee the county because they feel persecuted, they should have the right to do that. Apart from this current crisis, the UN would like to know the long term future for these creatures." He has also condemned the Minister and his government agents for conducting crimes against badgers.</p> <p>A spokesbadger from Dark Wood in Somerset described the precarious and violent situation inside the county. "This is a very worrying time for badgers but one which we shall overcome. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be."</p> <p>Meanwhile gift shops across Somerset are worried that, despite an increase in supplies public opinion will create a decline in the sale of souvenir shaving brushes and badger tail key rings. </p>