Badgering the NFU

So, at the eleventh hour, the government has decided that they are not as prepared as they thought to allow marksmen to attempt to shoot the badger population in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Well, surprise , surprise. Nothing to do with the national outcry then? In the last few days, BBC news in particular has traipsed a number of farmers across our screen with tales of woe about the number of dairy cows they have lost to TB and the monetary cost to both themselves and the national economy.
Err - hold on a weenie mo. When TB testing in cattle was at its height in the 60's, TB was almost entirely eradicated, but it was the farmers themselves who pushed for the relaxation of this compulsory measure - mostly due to costs! It has also been widely reported (after extensive and costly research) that by culling badgers, TB in cattle would at the most only be reduced by 16% - and might even be worse. Yet we still have many members of the NFU (it has to be said that not all farmers agree with these proposed measures) talking about badgers as though they are one of the great plagues .
Then , we have to remember that these guys are - farmers. They moan and whinge about anything and everything. The weather mostly. It's either too hot, too cold, too windy, too frosty, too wet, too dry . If there were no badgers, they would find other external reasons to blame for the loss of their herd from this disease, but apparently will not accept the simple solution of simply vaccinating either the cattle or the badgers - or both. I would also like to point out that if there is a way of avoiding even more suffering in dairy herds, farmers should be made to do so as responsible owners.
The government has announced a stay of execution , but the matter is not over yet. Therefore, it is up to everyone who cares for wildlife - whether you live in the country or not - to contact your local farmers and ask them, politely, to stop whingeing, pull their Hunters up by their bootstraps, and accept that there is another way around this without putting a lead pellet into the brain of Old Mr Brock!
Also, might I add, farming is no more difficult than many other occupations - and farmers do have the choice of continuing or retraining . No one is chaining them to their tractors . So please, "call me  Dave" Cameron, make TB vaccination in dairy cattle compulsory again and get farmers to put their hands in their pockets - after all , it must be a hell of a lot cheaper than the disposal of disease ridden cows or hiring marksmen and extra police to deal with the number of saboteurs , some dressed as badgers, lurking around the setts.