Future Culls Will Need a Cast-Iron Scientific Basis

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Last Friday's High Court judgement, in which Justice Lloyd Jones ruled against the Badger Trust in its attempt to have the Welsh Assembly Government's proposed badger cull declared illegal, may yet prove to be a double-edged sword in the battle against the disease.

On the one hand, at least the Welsh cull can now go ahead, thereby allowing its effectiveness to be tested where it matters most - in one of the most heavily infected tuberculosis hotspots in the country.

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Future Culls Will Need a Cast-Iron Scientific Basis

But against that, some of the evidence which emerged during the two-day court hearing, and which the judge discusses at length in his closely argued 42-page judgement, can only have the effect of making a future Defra Secretary of State think hard before going ahead wit...

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