Record 32,000 badgers shot in annual cull

[Still Waters]

More than 32,000 badgers were killed in England this autumn during the annual cull, which is intended to reduce tuberculosis in cattle.

Government officials claimed the culls were effective and starting to reduce prevalence of the disease in cows. But independent scientists said the officials were cherry-picking data and making up targets as they went along.

TB in cattle costs taxpayers £100m in compensation each year, with 33,000 infected animals slaughtered in 2017. The environment secretary, Michael Gove, approved a huge expansion of badger culling in September. This resulted in the largest number of animals killed to date.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/18/record-32000-badgers-shot-in-annual-cull

[Robotic Jew]

That's a lot of badgers. Sounds like there was some kind of population boom. Perhaps the "culling" was more about preventing the eventual badger uprising.

[Wistman]

Execute all badgers, protect the commodity!!!!!  (er....cows, that is.)   /s

Edited December 18, 2018 by The Wistman

[Jenn8779]

Its so sad that one species must be killed so another one can live.  I often wonder how much research it would take to figure out another way.