Farmers say badger cull in the UK reduces TB in cattle

Farm leaders in Britain have recorded reduced incidences of tuberculosis in cattle in areas where badger culling is being used to tackle the disease in livestock.

Farmers attending the National Farmers’ Union annual conference in Birmingham were told that in the two pilot areas in Somerset and Gloucestershire, the incidence of TB on farms had decreased.

President Meurig Raymond urged politicians not to make the controversial cull “a party political issue” in the run-up to the general election, and criticised Labour for pledging to give up on culling.