Update on the airing of the documentary. You can begin to see the kind of thing we have been up against for the last 14 years, trying to get to the truth about Bovine TB, cattle, and badgers. This is only the tip of a very big iceberg. The forces marshalled against the badgers are very strong.
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Thanks for your great supportive comments. If you want to help, you beautiful folks in the Bri Army – please spread the word about the documentary – and it might help to support the BBC in standing up to the attacks on their impartiality. The BBC have given me a hard time as regards maintaining fairness – you can see that even when I contributed a piece for the Radio Times they insisted on publishing TWO responses underneath – from the National Farmers Union and the new Minister of the Environment. So now we can see why they have to be so careful – and I respect that.
In the coming weeks you will see all sorts of attacks on our credibility – including outrageous claims like a 56 per cent improvement in TB over 4 years of badger-killing. But you will also see all these claims debunked by both scientists and farm vets.
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💥💥💥 As for watching it in other countries – thanks for asking. Can you guys access BBC iPlayer ? It should be on there after Friday.
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Hardly surprising that the Countryside Alliance want to stop you seeing our documentary – the result of 12 years research into how the disease of bovine TB is actually transmitted. The CA’s remit, of course, is to try to ensure that blood sports continue, and they represent hunters and shooters. These are the very people who find employment killing badgers in the Cull Zones, and they get paid a large fee per badger killed. It’s easy to see that the CA has a vested interest in making sure the badger culls conttinue.
To date around 230,000 badgers have been slaughtered in the UK. Imagine how much money is being made here. We can see also that they have a vested interest in TB NOT being eradicated. So it’s no wonder that these people would prefer that you didn’t see our film.
Hopefully the BBC will stand firm. The documentary is scrupulously fair and honest, and it means a lot to me that the plight of the farmers is well and sympathetically represented.
Bri