Culling Must Not Be Left to the Farmers ; Letters

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THE majority of the British public would no doubt agree that culling badgers would be wrong, (Disastrous policy of culling badgers, Letters, October 7). And they would be right, but not just on sentimental grounds. As John Williams points out in his letter, expert evidence, which was based upon a hugely expensive 10-year research project, concluded that culling would not be effective overall.

Further interpretations of the results suggest that a cull would have to achieve a very high kill rate to be worthwhile ( probably 80 per cent plus), and over a very large area.

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Culling Must Not Be Left to the Farmers ; Letters

Many individual landowners - not all of whom are...

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