The Labour party has called instead for science-led policy to manage cattle movements and develop a vaccine. It has also launched an online petition and has written to 25 000 supporters of previous countryside and animal welfare campaigns. The Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government is currently consulting on using culls and plans to pilot it in two areas next spring, providing the consultation throws up no major obstacles. A wider cull could then be carried out in 2013.
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