BBC Radio 4_ Farming Today 9Sep19 - badger cull
Dr Iain McGill: Vet/Director of the Prion Interest Group
Badger culls will not now go ahead in Derbyshire - the licence application has been turned down while DEFRA looks into the relationship between vaccinating badgers in the area and running a cull. The annual badger cull - which is thought to be underway in other areas of the country - is part of the Government's strategy to control TB in cattle, a disease which costs around £100m year. Culling remains controversial and a group of vets and scientists say it isn't being monitored properly and that the Government's own figures show it isn't working. They've written to Natural England - which oversees the cull - to demand that it’s stopped, Charlotte asks one of the signatories to explain their reasoning.
