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In other surveys have also made clear their opposition to the public: 97% from 2007 in a poll for the Labour government, 68%, in both rural and urban compared in a recent BBC poll, 90.9% from a Guardian survey in July. Also, a recent survey of Countryfile, which surveyed a largely farming audience, more than 60% against a cull.

Want to help badger culling? The answer is no. And to support this conclusion, we need only look back at the evidence for the cancer study, a pilot cull of badgers massive more than 10 years between 1997 and 2007 by the independent Scientific Group (ISG) is monitored. It is a hackneyed argument, but it bears repeating: The study showed that BTB has been reduced only slightly in the culling area. Outside the culling area, it actually increased, a result of the so-called perturbation theory, where badgers who survived a selection process, have spread to escape danger. This behavior does not occur in another species. The completion of this massive study that "Culling is not a meaningful contribution to reduce the BTB to make \." Was

\ In the weeks before the government's recent announcement that seven former members of the ISG, wrote a letter to the Times against a proposed cull. These included Mr. Krebs, who designed the 10-year study and is now chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, Professor John Bourne, the ISG 's Chairman, and Dr Chris Cheeseman, the lead scientist for many years at Defra 's Woodchester Park study area in Gloucestershire, where the farmers were taking part in the study badgers, cattle and BTB. She said it was "no empirical data on the cost or effectiveness (or humanity or security) to control badgers by shooting that was illegal for decades".

In early July, said Lord Krebs: "The survey evidence should be interpreted as an argument against the cull cull hard for you to be at least four years, you will be a net benefit of reducing TB in cattle by 12% to 16% so you have .. leave 85% of the problem is still there. "

It seems, pushed their arguments fell on deaf ears. Make no mistake, this is an argument that the government does not want to hear.