Badgered to Death: The People and Politics of the Badger Cull

'A thriller, whodunnit and impassioned polemic' (Patrick Barkham, Guardian) Dominic Dyer picks apart the science and electioneering behind Britain's most controversial wildlife policy: the badger cull. He exposes the catastrophic handling of bovine TB by the UK government, the political manoeuvring that led to the cull being devised in 2010, and the ongoing close relationship between its two instigators in Britain -- the National Farmers Union and the Department of the Environment, Food and...