The English are a strange group. They recently outlawed the killing of foxes via fox hunting and now they want to kill off European badgers. Save a fox and kill a badger. The rational is that these badgers carry TB and can transmit it to cattle which has been a major problem in the past. Trials have been done and in some cases, the transmission to cattle actually increased after the badgers in an area were killed. The explanation is that when badgers in one area were killed those in adjacent areas roamed more widely and infected more cattle. The cattle farmers take this result as proof that they should get all the badgers so that there are none left to roam. The environmentalists say that the results show that culling will not work. What will the English do? They will keep a stiff upper lip and do something absurd.
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