Ok, my personal opinions aside, I've actually had to argue this from both sides, as a conservationist opposed to badger culling, and as a supporter of farming for whom TB is undoubtedly a huge and expensive problem. The bottom line is that the independent scientific evidence and opinion is that culling won't work, and may even make the problem worse.
Despite that the cull was still agreed.
On the day the cull was announced, I heard the following interview on Radio Wales with a farmer from Pembrokeshire:
Interviewer - "What do you think of the news about the cull?"
Farmer - "I think it is great news. At last someone is finally doing something"
Interviewer - "Have you got badgers on your land?"
Farmer - "Yes"
Interviewer - "Do you have a big poblem with TB in your herds then?"
Farmer - "My herds are TB free"
Interviewer - "So the badgers are clearly not the problem for you, but you still support the cull?!"
Farmer - "Yes. Its about time someone did something"
Even if that something is clearly the wrong thing then :11doh: