Badger Cull Figures, Convicted Gangmasters
As Defra releases the badger cull figures, we ask how successful it was. We hear that while in Somerset the cull was deemed effective, in Gloucestershire it fell well short.
With DEFRA having released the badger cull figures, we ask how successful was it? We hear that while in Somerset the cull was deemed effective, in Gloucestershire it fell well short.
The government's chief vet concluded that the Somerset figures show 'industry-led culling can, in the right circumstances' be effective and help control disease.
Charlotte Smith speaks to NFU President, Meirig Raymond, Dominic Dyer of the Badger Trust, and
Andrew Guest, who's spokesman for Gloscon, the farmer-led company that's carried out badger culling in west Gloucestershire.
As two Latvian men have been found guilty of taking part in an illegal gangmastering operation, we hear about the lives of migrants working in the fields around Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.
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