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Despite no scientific evidence of success, the badger cull started again last week. PETER FROST reports
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Last autumn the number of one of our most fascinating wild mammals shot in the controversial badger cull soared to more than 10,800.
Tory ministers, and some of their rich farmer pals, claimed the result as a success but the vast majority of leading scientists said there was no basis for suggesting the cull was effective.
It was clear that the badgers were being used as scapegoats for failures in the intensive livestock industry.
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