There are powerful cases on both sides of the badger culling debate.
Many dairy farmers, struggling with adverse effects of climate change, believe their livelihoods are at stake; many ordinary people believe that killing virtually all our badgers by rifle bullets is not the answer. Yet both sides need to be united in their desire to see an end to bovine TB; they disagree on the means to achieve this. Animal welfare is at the heart of this issue, and we will have to pay realistic prices for our dairy food (and not make the badgers our scapegoat) if we are to insist on humane, British standards in our farming methods. We can't have it both ways.
Kirsten Bolwig Willow Green, Bath
