By tweaking the design of a cull - expanding the central killing zone, and choosing sites carefully to take advantage of hard boundaries like rivers and motorways - Defra's chief veterinary officer Nigel Gibbens argues it should be possible to maximise the positive impact on bovine TB infection rates in cattle.
We systematically cull low-performers in the private sector where consequences for failure are far less than for public schools.
Gloucestershire Against Badger Shooting is asking the parties contesting the county council election in May to make council land a no-cull zone.
The anti-cull campaigner and Queen guitarist Brian May welcomed the delay.
BBC: Badger cull: Government to delay scheme until next year
One anti-cull protester I spoke to later that day naturally condemned the decision, but frankly admitted that it was a foregone conclusion given the governing parties' election pledges.
Waze, which is especially popular in dense cities, would place Facebook at the center of people's cars and could be used to cull more real-time data based on users' behavior.
Anti-cull protesters, led by the Badger Trust, argued it had not yet been scientifically proven that badgers are implicated in the transmission of TB within cattle and it doubts a cull would help eradicate the disease.
Expansion would boost that number, and so an across-the-board cull will eventually be required.
But new start-up Cull.tv wants to provide a new way for people to watch music videos.
It flared up again in September, despite a 2, 000-strong cull and nationwide restrictions on moving farm animals.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said it reluctantly accepted the pre-emptive cull but others are warning of direct action against the measure.
The government postponed a nationwide badger cull in a last-minute decision last autumn, but approved pilot culls in Gloucestershire and West Somerset to begin in June.
For its launch, Google asked celebrities (including fashion plates Carey Mulligan and the Olsen twins), fashion bloggers and retailers to curate their own boutiques, which cull items from e-commerce sites all over the web.
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They're clearly entitled to question - like one dairy farmer we interviewed at this year's Devon County Show - whether the cull will ever happen at all.
Breakfast Time trumped the rival ITV offering in the early ratings battle, which led to a cull of employees at TV-am including Peter Jay, Anna Ford and Angela Rippon in favour of "people-next-door" Anne Diamond and Nick Owen.
In England, 164 grammar schools survived the 1970s cull and still use the 11-plus for admissions.
The final stages of the cull of 40, 000 animals on Anglesey - which involves the Gaerwen abattoir - is expected to resume on Monday.
On Wednesday, Mrs Rodgers re-emphasised that the lifting of the European export ban on Northern Ireland animal products could be jeopardised by farmers' refusal to co-operate with an extended precautionary cull of sheep on the Cooley Peninsula in the Meigh restriction zone.
But the cull of older workers, which started in blue-collar industries in the 1970s, spread into white-collar occupations over the next two decades.
The cull is to affect sheep on farms in the three-kilometre radius of the outbreak at Meigh.
"The science is on our side on this, " she insisted, claiming a cull would not be effective and could potentially be counter-productive.
Cull up to three very short video vignettes from the pre-conference interviews to insert in the Vook.
The government has previously said the cull of badgers is necessary as part of a "science-led" programme to tackle TB - which has been devastating to farmers.
The couple have been dubbed one of the "Anglesey seven" - a group which took a stand against the mass cull policy.
According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).
Carwyn Jones said the cull was unplesant but vital to try to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth.
The previous Labour-Plaid Cymru coalition government was in favour of the badger cull and the former assembly had voted for the cull following extensive evidence gathering and scrutinising.
Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull said that the announcement puts Dunedin on the world map as a first-class literary city.
But it also mutated on social media into humorous new variants such as "Romneyshambles" - used to describe gaffes by US presidential candidate Mitt Romney during his visit to the UK - and omnivoreshambles, referring to the row about a planned badger cull in England and Wales.
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