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badgers · Meles meles · england
killed to protect cattle from tuberculosis
20,000
a year
6.34e-4
a second
55
a day
cattle killed for tuberculosis, england
25,000
a year
7.92e-4
a second
68
a day
method DEFRA cull returns for England, annualised; cattle figures are DEFRA bovine TB slaughter statistics for England.
- about 230,000 badgers shot since 2013. whether it lowers tb in cattle is contested. the ledger is not.source: DEFRA; Godfray review 2018; Langton et al. 2022
- tuberculosis crosses from cattle to people in unpasteurised milk: about 140,000 human cases and 11,000 deaths a year, mostly where milk is not treated.source: WHO / OIE / FAO 2017
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how this number is built
- method
- DEFRA cull returns for England, annualised; cattle figures are DEFRA bovine TB slaughter statistics for England.
- range
- badgers 10,000–35,000/yr; cattle 20,000–30,000/yr
- confidence
- count
- weakness
- the cull is being wound down; the rate will fall. whether it reduces bovine TB is scientifically contested and the site says so.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-030 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0