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Wild Mammals and the Land by MAFF
Review
Content-Type
Pamphlet
Description
So here we have a tricky problem? How do
we review an apparently factually-accurate booklet about badgers produced by
MAFF?
Well ... I suppose by taking verbatim quotes from the text:
One piece of bad advice given by MAFF is that "the badger is
easily tamed when young and makes a very interesting and pleasing
pet".
What remains, includes some of the most sensible advice ever given out by MAFF!
"in many parts of the country (the badger) is being subjected to
the unjust persecution that has been its lot for centuries"
"all of these (experts) have reached the conclusion that on
balance the badger is definitely a beneficial animal"
"in many ways the badger is an admirable and likable creature"
"the badger does an immense amount of good by destroying pests
of various kinds"
"no other British mammal has been subject to so much
ill-informed, adverse comment, backed by so little evidence"
Summary
A nice pro-badger book by MAFF
(predecessors of DEFRA)!
