Start with the money: Over \u00a3 4,000 per badger culled.\u00a0 That’s a big number.<\/p>\n
We didn’t like the badger culling “solution” to bovine TB because killing ought to be a last resort – we value life, so it is very sad to hear that the deaths were inhumane with 20% taking longer than 5 minutes.\u00a0 In addition, the consequences of invading the badger habitats might have worsened the situation by forcing badgers out to uninfected areas.<\/p>\n
BBC: Badger culls were ‘ineffective and failed humaneness test’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Start with the money: Over \u00a3 4,000 per badger culled.\u00a0 That’s a big number. We didn’t like the badger culling “solution” to bovine TB because killing ought to be a last resort – we value life, so it is very sad to hear that the deaths were inhumane with 20% taking longer than 5 minutes.\u00a0 …
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