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- Title
Death on the farm: Culling badgers in North Pembrokeshire (Respond to this article at.
- Authors
Caplan, Pat
- Abstract
The Welsh Assembly Government has recently announced its intention to cull all badgers from North Pembrokeshire on the grounds that they are vectors of bovine tuberculosis. This article considers some local reactions to this news, ranging from those who support the cull wholeheartedly to those who argue against it, and some of the reasons why people adopt different standpoints. The article considers a range of issues which help explain why people think as they do; these include perception of risk, ethnicity, ideas about animals and wildlife, the selective uses of both scientific literature and emotion, and finally some of the local and regional politics involved.
- Subjects
WALES; WALES. Welsh Assembly Government; TUBERCULOSIS in cattle; ETHNICITY; SCIENTIFIC literature
- Publication
Anthropology Today, 2010, Vol 26, Issue 2, p14
- ISSN
0268-540X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00722.x