A Badger foraging in daylight: are your days are numbered? Photography: Elliott Neep/Getty Images/Oxford scientificAnimal-rights activists are going crazy at the thought of Badger culling that was announced by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman in response to years of lobbying by farmers who insist on believing that it will limit the spread of tuberculosis in cattle.
Some experts argue that there is plenty of evidence that culling simply do not have an impact on the health of cattle. I must confess that I do not know who is right and who is wrong.
But I know one thing. There are already more dead Badgers on what used to be. now it is not uncommon to see Badger corpses on the side of the road, killed by traffic. A farmer I know – not a farmer – says the Badger population became so great in their land they are breaking their nightly, nocturnal habit because foraging is no longer enough to sustain the population. Any way you want to call it, now is not an auspicious spot to be a Badger.
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