Only the the animal lobby is stopping this government from culling badgers.A study in Ireland has proved conclusively that they carry TB. Yet when there was a programme of gassing badgers there was an outcry.

By the same token - human beings carry TB - should all human beings be gassed then?

If it was only the animal lobby that was preventing this - perhaps you should be grateful?

I still think the foxhunters could have won the debate, were it not for the nature of the beast. The sheer arrogance of the pro-hunting lobby; their crude dismissal of some people's genuine horror at the cruelty involved; their lack of reverence for the democratic process, it has all worked against them and it shines out from every post on this subject.