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    Jul 30, 2020 3 minutes

    Badger debate

    enjoyed your article on badgers and Bovine TB (Out of the woods?, spring 2020) and I feel that I learnt a lot. However, I would like to know more about the evidence relied on by Stuart Roberts of the NFU. He states “the latest peer-reviewed research definitively shows the phenomenal impact culling badgers has on reducing TB levels in cattle…”. This is a very big claim, seemingly at odds with the views expressed by Rosie Woodroffe and Christl Donnelly in the article.

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