The Badger Cull

[Catherine]

England has been struggling with bovine TB for years. It is actually on the rise again. Somehow they had hit on the idea of culling badgers to combat bovine TB. It hasn't proved to be effective. It is costly, running thousands of pounds per badger. It is also cruel and inhumane.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/when...te-winner/

There are so many things that could be said about the badge cull. There are so many arguments that could be made for and against.
I don't think any of that matters when you look at the fact that the cull is the slaughtering of a species. I don't think we as a species have the right to do that to another species. We run the risk of upsetting the ecology of areas where the cull takes place. Badgers have been part of the ecosystem long before cows were brought in. Who knows what the consequences of a massive cull would be. It certainly won't be the eradication of  bovine Tb. Maybe better handling of bovine herds would be more effective.

If the consequences of a mass badger cull are a serious upset of the ecology we won't know until it is too late and we may have bigger issues than bovine TB to deal with.

Unless we have studied badgers in great detail we don't really know how they impact the  web of life in their territories.