It's time for a proper badger control policy

摘要

Top of the wish list for John Trunch this year is that of a proper control policy for badgers to help check the raging advance of TB, and he has some pretty strong advice about how to go about it. One thing about not making any New Year resolutions isthat I have no breakages toreport. I do however have hopes which I wish very much will soon be realised. The first of these must be the introduction of a sensible and properly regulated programme of badger culling. The way that this disease is cropping up in closed herds contradicts members of the animal rights lobby who claim that the spread is our fault, brought about by the movement of cattle. It is 'stripy' who rolls through the barbed wire fences and digs through the banks into my neighbour's, not my, pedigree home-bred heifers.