Consent granted for badger cull licences
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Agriculture minister Jim Paice confirmed that the pilot schemes would use controlled shooting.
He said: ?Nobody wants to cull badgers, but no country in the world where wildlife carries TB has eradicated the disease in cattle without tackling it in wildlife too.?