Record 32,000 badgers shot in annual cull
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#458AR)
Scientists accuse officials of cherry-picking data to defend disease-control scheme
More than 32,000 badgers were killed in England this autumn during the annual cull, which is intended to reduce tuberculosis in cattle.
Government officials claimed the culls were effective and starting to reduce prevalence of the disease in cows. But independent scientists said the officials were cherry-picking data and making up targets as they went along.
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