I’m not defending the importation or breeding of alpacas for meat or wool or the pet trade - I’ve no idea what Geronimo’s owner’s business plan was. Neither do I defend the intensive industrialised farming of cattle, conditions in which many are kept leads to the growth of transmittable diseases such as TB. Economic concerns have meant that effective vaccines have not been used, despite their availability. Defra are not to be trusted to be impartial in this case - their MO is to make up the rules and follow them inflexibly, which is my main concern in this case, They would not allow independent testing and now will not allow independent observers at the post mortem. If this animal had had TB for 4 years one wouldn’t expect it to be healthy for 4 years. Just as well they don’t apply the same rules to humans who have TB - oh no, they will be treated and there is a vaccine. Killing one animal does not “save” hundreds more - cows are on their way to the abattoir sooner or later anyway once they’ve lived out their money making life - frequently impregnated, having their calves removed and half of the calves killed on the spot, over milked , then shoved onto trucks driven miles, prodded with electric rods to get them into the kill line…