Welsh Government announce badger vaccination plans while the English badger cull is just around the corner

Wales has shown the way - now we must see sense and stop falling for the paranoia and clever blinding with science. Incidentally, what about the gang in Co. Durham who attacked a badger sett with a mechanical digger and the not uncommon attacks on setts by hunt terrier men?

While I have not read every word about the killing of Badgers, I'm sure I would have noticed who will be paid for the deed, we know who will pay.

Why has the welsh head of research into control of tb resigned over the decision not to cull ?how will annually vaccinating badgers in tb hot spots ,vaccines only work pre infection , the vaccine is not a cure nor does it stop tb badgers spreading tb . we used to have healthy badgers pre them becoming a protected species , then only a few infected badgers in the south west , now 20 years later we some 150 miles away we have cows being shot daily (the lucky ones )and sick badgers dying painful slow deaths . took 20 years to get here mind despite many blaming cattle movements travel that distance weekly . while we may like to view nature through rose tinted glasses ,it's ruthless and cruel and sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind or you end up being far far cruel through being too soft . I say this as an organic farmer who's had a closed herd for over 50 years and have no neighbours with cows ,mainly woodland or sheep and yet now have cows being shot for tb and dying badgers all over the place , the badger trust blame cows for giving it to badgers and yet this is impossible as they are tested every year and then every 60 days after a breakdown and removed within 10 days if they test positive ,it takes at least two years for them to become infectious , the percentage of cows with tb in a hot spot is a fraction of 1 % and yet badgers are 30% . Every other country that culled carrier wildlife in hot spots kept TB under control or eradicated it , which we came close to in 1982 , never before has an act of law caused so much suffering and death to animals in history and plenty of human infections too that don't get tested for the bovis strain , just given and blanket treatment and never recorded if they had to switch to a bovis cure . How many of the UK population would be happy to allow their houses to become over run with rats ? I don't see people campaigning for the protection of rats , why base policy on how cute an animal is ?