Signed, just noticed Brian May started it too

One school of thought reckons it will make less than 1% difference to TB.

Nature, if left to its own devices tends to have a way of managing population control far better than we are, but we will insist on one minute protecting, the next culling

There is always the vaccination option.
But that costs money.

but nature has already been over ridden by us needing millions of healthy cows to support our kind,


and at the moment its not working very well anyway

i ask all you people that want it stoped, do you have problems with people shooting foxes ?

there are far to many badgers as well you know, people that dont live on/work the land dont get to see them,
on the farm i work on we have 5 different groups of badgers, 20 years ago they had one group nad they foraged most of the land, they now have a 5th of the room they would like

but nature has already been over ridden by us needing millions of healthy cows to support our kind,


and at the moment its not working very well anyway

i ask all you people that want it stoped, do you have problems with people shooting foxes ?

there are far to many badgers as well you know, people that dont live on/work the land dont get to see them,
on the farm i work on we have 5 different groups of badgers, 20 years ago they had one group nad they foraged most of the land, they now have a 5th of the room they would like

Taken from an article in the Guardian.

Would badger culling help? The answer is no. And to support this conclusion, we need only look back at the evidence of the Krebs trial, a massive pilot cull of badgers over 10 years between 1997 and 2007, overseen by the Independent Scientific Group (ISG). It is a well-worn argument, but it bears repeating: the trial showed that bTB in the culling area was reduced only marginally. Outside the culling area, it actually rose, a result of what is called perturbation, where badgers who have survived a cull spread out to escape danger. This behaviour does not occur in any other species. The conclusion of this massive trial was that "culling can make no meaningful contribution to the reduction of bTB".

In the weeks leading up to the government's latest announcement, seven former members of the ISG wrote a letter to the Times opposing a proposed cull. They included Lord Krebs, who designed the 10-year trial and is now chairman of the House of Lords science and technology select committee, Professor John Bourne, the ISG's chairman, and Dr Chris Cheeseman, the principal scientist for many years at Defra's Woodchester Park study area in Gloucestershire, where farmers themselves were involved in research into badgers, cattle and bTB. They said there was "no empirical data on the cost or effectiveness (or indeed humaneness or safety) of controlling badgers by shooting, which has been illegal for decades".

but nature has already been over ridden by us needing millions of healthy cows to support our kind,


and at the moment its not working very well anyway

i ask all you people that want it stoped, do you have problems with people shooting foxes ?

there are far to many badgers as well you know, people that dont live on/work the land dont get to see them,
on the farm i work on we have 5 different groups of badgers, 20 years ago they had one group nad they foraged most of the land, they now have a 5th of the room they would like