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Extend the badger cull to more UK counties
Should the badger cull be extended from Gloucestershire/Somerset to other UK counties?
Alliance Party Alliance Agriculture spokesperson Kieran McCarthy has said that England should adopt the Northern Ireland method for combating bovine tuberculosis instead of a badger cull which has begun in parts in of England.
Conservative The cull was needed, he said, to prevent TB spreading among cattle. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-31083871
DUP Seven of the eight DUP MPs voted for the badger cull; one abstained
Green Party The Green Party has always opposed the badger cull http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/03/01/greens-%E2%80%93-scrap-badger-culling-now/
Labour Labour would " End the badger cull and maintain the ban on hunting with dogs." Source: Labour Party Manifesto.
Liberal Democrat Abandoning the current culls at this point would actually lead to an increase of the disease in the wildlife reservoir which is why it is important that the culls have not been abandoned altogether, but will continue with an adjusted methodology aimed to ensure that as they progress these two culls will be both humane and effective
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