'Crazy Cull' should be the name of a death metal band, but in the weird world we inhabit it is Government policy. Lord Krebs - the government's own science adviser - has said that the planned badger pilot culls are simply 'crazy'. The original extensive scientific study into TB in badgers concluded that culling badgers would at best only make a marginal difference to TB in cattle, and at worst could even make the situation worse. Ignoring the science, an ignorant Government pandering to ignorant farmers will start killing badgers very soon in pilot areas down in South West England. The science says that efforts should be placed on vaccination and biosecurity measures. But of course that would involve thought and some effort for our poor subsidised farmers; and besides where's the fun in that for gun-totting rednecks who will be bailed out by the taxpayer come what may?
'The scientist whose research is being cited by the government to justify its plan to cull badgers in England has described the scheme as "crazy".
'Lord Krebs spoke to BBC News after the government's environment advisory body Natural England has issued a culling licence to a consortium of landowners in Gloucestershire.
'The cull is intended to control the spread of TB in cattle.
'A second licence will be issued to farmers in Somerset within days.' (BBC News article).
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