Badgers v farmers: finally we’re getting away from this polarised debate | Patrick Barkham

Bovine TB has been detected in everything from earthworms to cats. Rather than culling, we need a different way to compensate those who’ve lost cattleThe belief that badgers possess superpowers is supported by cameras in Utah’s Grassy Mountains, which have revealed a badger working for four days to bury a calf carcass much bigger than itself, before digging a new home next door.The American badger, Taxidea taxus, is a different species to Britain’s native badger, but Meles mele