People do stupid things when they are scared

People do very stupid things when they are scared. Even governments.

While some people feel absolute glee when spotting a badger, build dens for them in their gardens, experience a divine sense of wonder while badger-watching at dusk ... there are others who can't wait to get out there and bludgeon them to death - the Welsh government, for example.

What would account for such, well, let's call it stupidity?

It can only be that the government is conceding to rampant free-floating anxiety from large companies operating in the cattle industry.

You can imagine the perpetrators of this industry being the kind of people who think it makes sense to kill all native badgers just on the off-chance, the remote possibility there might be, in the future, maybe, some kind of transference of bovine tuberculosis from a badger to a (cash) cow.

There is no proof of any connection between bovine TB in badgers and cattle. Nonetheless the Welsh government feels that really, the mere idea that large agricultural corporations might possibly suffer a loss of future profit from another Mad Cow disease-like scenario and this in turn potentially damage the Welsh economy is just so frightening that it must protect -- no, dearheart, not its indigenous wildlife, its natural heritage, one of Britain's favorite native animals no, no, no -- it must protect and indeed appease the profit-driven agriculture corporations.

Apparently it is so scared it wants to get rid of anything that might cause those paranoia-struck folks any kind of worry - no matter how irrational and ignorant their fears.

Let's hope The High Court stops in its tracks the Welsh government's psychotic proposal to kill thousands of wild, native Welsh badgers.

If you like lovely, stand-up for it. Support the lovely Brian at The Badgers Trust who must feel like he's losing his mind with this proposed badger kill idiocy and having to discuss it calmly on national radio. And go plant some seeds, feed a bird or something.