The environment minister tries to defend his badger cull,but we both know from experience that these animals beget an important role to play in Britain's countrysideSo Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, and has defended his position on the badger cull by telling Radio 4's nowadays programme: "I'm probably the only person listening to this programme to beget pet badgers as a child."Badgers do not make good pets. Like Paterson,I had some orphaned badgers as a child and I remember their brief company with fondness. My parents did not, as they were hugely destructive and laid waste to our small domestic and garden. I smuggled one into my bedroom one night and it got under the bed and into my Subbuteo box where it launched a vicious attack on Manchester City. Frances Lee was decapitated and Mike Summerbee totally dismembered. Several other players disappeared without trace and the badger was banished to its rightful residence in the garden.
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Source: theguardian.com