Badger culling to be stopped.

I have noticed that recently,  it seems, with  some posters

Its not a conspiracy theory, it’s a long reported fact that some animals found dead on roads hadn’t died as a result of road traffic incidents. It’s not a new or particularly recent phenomena, lots of different news sources. 

"Cranks"? If that's your attitude I've no wish to discuss this with you further - I note you haven't named the "ex moderator" -  "central reservation"? Not "always" on the side of the road then?  

Good post, WN. A well balanced summary. 👍🏻

It is a bit of an urban myth about badgers being placed on road sides, who would want to pick one up in the first place...thinks fleas, lice and a rather strong odour! 

"It is a bit of an urban myth about badgers being placed on road sides, who would want to pick one up in the first place...thinks fleas, lice and a rather strong odour! "

That's rather unfair on many farmers, brue!  

Thank you TW

I do hate to see any animal suffer, whether it's a badger or a cow, and one has to feel a great deal of sympathy for the farmer who will have a huge financial and, let's not forget, emotional hit on seeing his herd put down. I still feel though that this new initiative may help both sides.

I’m with you there. I have friends in the farming community who have suffered. It helps if we can see both sides of the story and, yes, let’s hope this move is to everyone's benefit. 

most of the people talking about badgers know very little about them.  They do more damage to wildlife than any other animal.  They have destroyed most of the Hedgehogs, nothing on the ground is safe from them. Bumble Bees are their favorite in summer Ground nesting birds are very rare now, they hunt the earth worms every night across the fields, worms are the basis of cropped land . What do you think they live on in winter?

So I presume you want many more Badgers than there are now at the expense of all the other ground birds and animals. This would go down in history as a huge mistake. Only humans control the number of Badgers, if  they are not controlled they will ruin the countryside.

So lets have an answer do you want all Badgers, or do you want a mixture of all wild life, there is no way you can have both                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

What you are talking about there is-nature, it has a hierarchy & food chain, the Badger being high up that food chain in the natural world. To slaughter one part of that natural food chain to save farmers money is not natural it is greed. Humans have destroyed & meddled with most of the natural world because we abuse our position of being the apex predator. Nature will balance its world, we will always destroy that natural balance thru greed.