Badger Culling Not a Cost Effective Means of Protecting Cattle

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Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) is the scourge of cattle farmers in the United Kingdom—costing an average of £27,000 per infected herd. Slowing bTB's spread is one of the major techniques farmers and the government use to fight the disease. The culling of carrier species—specifically badgers—has been part of this defense for generations.

New research, however, has shown that badger culls are not an effective means of controlling bTB, a finding that calls into question the entir...Read the full story on TreeHugger