IN 2013 we were made aware through The Sunday Times and TV news media that the government (Defra) had been selling meat from something like 28,000 carcasses infected with bovine tuberculosis, without any appropriate warning, to various food processors and that that meat was distributed within the human food chain, including school canteens, hospitals and military catering as well as pies and pasties.

Any danger to public health by way of infection was confidently claimed to be “extremely low”.

The resulting income to Defra was said to be about £10m a year.

So what’s all the fuss about? After all, it’s no major issue in some other countries; so we can be assured that the planned badger culls are just one political farce.

Robert Tuck

Pardy’s Hill, Corfe Mullen