Telegraph: A QC for the Badger Trust said proposals for two pilot culls were ”very, very controversial” at both the animal welfare level and scientific level.
He argued at London’s High Court the Government decision last December to allow the culls to go ahead was flawed and should be quashed.
Government lawyers say its policy is lawful and reasonable and based on the evidence of scientific experts.
The Trust has accused the livestock industry of using badgers as a scapegoat and underestimating the…