Almost 250,000 badgers were culled - but was it worth it?

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Britain has culled nearly 250,000 badgers since 2013 as part of an effort to control tuberculosis in cattle, yet the results remain fiercely contested. Opponents call the campaign a travesty; supporters defend it as necessary. The BBC examines what the evidence actually shows about whether killing badgers, a protected species, has meaningfully reduced TB in livestock or simply killed hundreds of thousands of animals to little effect.