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Badger Cull, Year 2

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boxtops | 23:20 Sun 31st Aug 2014 | Animals & Nature
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I'm sad to see this has been approved for a second year, without independent monitoring http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/26/badger-cull-natural-england-bovine-tb
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Clearly didn't work in year one so they will repeat until they get it right.
The last one was an unmitigated shambles and fell woefully short of its targets. Extended from 6 weeks to a further 8 it still only reached 40%, when the target was 70%, at a subsequent cost of over £4,100 per badger:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25622644

To me its an excuse to give to gung-ho tooting ex-fox hunters something to shoot at. Disgusted, nothing as yet being proven they even carry any disease (more than any other animals in nature) ...and these dick-heads couldn't hit side of a barn a leave them injured.
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Have there been any changes in concrete evidence that less badgers = less bovine TB? I think not.
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Thanks Chris - fingers crossed :-)

Let's hope they'll be a bit of this again, seemed to help last time!

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTz1ztZ4I6SR_n8kan4CdM7fgt72wdnSZVF4_gvk0usyV4bOI_a
Shooting our beautiful native badger - shocking !!!

Baldric, I don't understand that cartoon.....
Badgers moving the goalposts to fox the authorities and the hunt.

"Badgers moving the Goalposts"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24459424
Oh I see now, thanks.
I partly agree with arksided but think it's the excuse of 'working' men and roughnecks who go out and cull badgers for the fun of the shoot not ex foxhunters/toffs. I was angered by some of the ABers who defended it last time it was discussed (my views personally were totally dismissed) so I'll steer clear of it this time from now on.

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