Britain: The Badger Cull
October 22, 2012Advertisement
Every year, dairy farmers in Gloucestershire and Somersethave have to slaughter thousands of cows for bovine TB control. Badgers are made responsible for the transmission of the disease. Although badgers are a protected species, Conservative Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has given the go-ahead for the cull - as many as 100,000 badgers could be culled.
But the cull has angered animal rights activists as well as many British scientists. Their protests led to the postponement of the cull to the summer of 2013.