The BBC is reporting that the British Government has decided against badgers culls as part of its policy to address the increasing numbers of cattle with TB.
There’s no official statement on DEFRA Web site but, if true, it’s surely excellent news.
Of course, the National Farmers Union are sputtering.
This [TB in cattle] is wiping out big chunks of UK farming and is ruining farming families and the rural economy. We need to take tough decisions. It’s never popular but the farming industry will be devastated.
Perhaps they should’ve thought of the tough decisions they made when they crammed chickens into battery cages, forced veal calves into crates, fed ground up dead animals to vegetarian animals, exported live animals to the European mainland for rearing and slaughter and so on.
