Well, the source is evident to any countryman out there. There has been a rapid decline in hedgehogs, and we know perfectly well that badgers eat hedgehogs’ young, wild birds and birds’ nests. That, however, is not the subject of the debate, and I do not want to get drawn on that red herring.
Badger Culling
Proceeding contribution from
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 March 2017.
It occurred during e-petition debate on Badger Culling.
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