WHy does it matter if a cow has TB

just write background for this topic(WHy does it matter if a cow has TB, general research findings )

This option is not local to the Business School and will involve a slightly different starting point for analysis – it is nonetheless overtly sociomaterial in character.
Agriculture is a core activity in the UK. The image of British agriculture as a neo-modern rural idyll has disappeared from the British imagination. Crises and controversy in food production such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy and salmonella in eggs in the 1980’s have led to increasing regulation of food chains and a move to give greater confidence to consumers
Across the supply chain agricultural policy, methods and problems are now clearly represented as overtly political and complex. Since World War two the UK has experienced an increasing focus on intensive farming and production efficiency. Alongside the increasing mechanisation and intensity of agriculture, food safety has emerged as a new category of work involving a large workforce and food safety legislation has developed at a pace previously unknown in the UK. The early legislation focused in retail and slaughter especially in terms of cleanliness and fair weights and measures. More recently, disease control regulation turned to animal husbandry and production practices. In the last two decades there has been an increasing legislation around this area of the food chain and a concomitant flurry of images, new language and specificities surrounding the relationship between production and consumption: such as red tractors, free range, corn fed, barn raised, outdoor reared, organic and fair.
Occasionally, public attention is drawn quite forcibly to farming practices and this attention is often accompanied by a media upsurge in reporting on the relationships between food production and public health. You may recollect public and media concerns over avian influenza mutating to cross the species (2005-8) and cause a human flu pandemic (2009 and continuing) and recent e-coli outbreaks resulting in multiple deaths (2012). As the salmonella, BSE and e-coli outbreaks have all traces into the intensive and efficient production networks farming with livestock is controversial in the UK – for example the recent debates over mega-dairies are relevant here.
The problem that we wish you to examine in sociomaterial terms is a long standing problem and one that had been addressed (closure) but it has recently morphed and is reopening in a slightly changed way: it is the controversies surrounding beef and dairy farming and the management of the disease bovine tuberculosis.
The risk to humans from bovine tuberculosis has been known for a long time and it has been managed for a long time. The technologies and processes for either sterilisation or pasteurisation of milk are well embedded in both UK legislation and dairy farming. Both pasteurization and sterilisation effectively closed the concern over tuberculosis risk to human from cattle. However, recently bovine tuberculosis is emerging as a controversial problem currently impacting primarily on the lives of farmers, livestock keepers and veterinary surgeons – the activities circulate around scale of the disease and the legal requirement for routine testing and destruction of infected animals.
We are part of an influential knowledge focused organisation situated in the heart of a rural belt in the UK. In this study we require that you advise on an informed and responsible position that our organisation could take on this issue – and reflect on any unintended consequences of that position on our own business.
Take as a starting point for your inquiries the question ‘why does it matter if a cow has bovine TB?’ and trace current sociomaterial networks involved in the controversy. You may find it helpful to look into controversy networks around three ongoing activities: the development, use and constraints of a vaccination programme for cattle; the vaccination of badgers and the culling badgers.
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