Shoot the lot of them I say, they make canny sporrans.
Seriously though ever since we started domesticating animals and cultivating the land then our interference means that we have to take responsibilty for managing nature however much treehugging bambi shaggers might want it otherwise. We have a lunatic up in Scotland wanting to reintroduce the wolf for heavens sake, the Wolf was hunted to extinction for very good reasons.
Anyway whilst I am no fan of blood baths for the sake of them badger populations do need to be managed, whilst I have very little sympathy for the modern agri-chemical, supermarket pandering, land barons, they are not farmers in my meaning of the word, the issues of bovine TB and an excess of badgers as evidenced to me by the plethora of striped roadkill that is now littering our highways along with the buggers brazenly snuffling round my croft for the first time in my lifetime, something needs to be done to manage the population.
Whilst it would be good to tackle the disease aspect of badgers with vaccination I just cannot see how it would work in practice as has been already articulated here, lets face it badgers are bad tempered b@stards.
Me I'd put a bounty and quotas on them and let nature take its course.
Much as I enjoy wild life, alive in its natural habitat as well as on my plate, and abhor wanton cruelty, animals are not humans and when we remove natural predators we need to address the imbalance that causes.
As for human culling, globally we seem to be doing OK in some places so it isn't as one sided as bambi shaggers would have it, nature is hard, cold and cruel however much we would like it to be all doe eyed, warm, soft and cuddly.
All life dies, its just a matter of when and how. The trick is what we do with the time before it happens.
