[secondcoming]

No. It's because farmers sometimes pollute rivers (despite household sewage being pumped into UK rivers daily), want to kill badgers to stop TB spreading, and because they work large areas of land they're obviously wealthy.

[defrost]

Sure, someone always believes such things, .. is that really widespread and a core belief of the "the UK Leftist/Green crowd." ?

The constant observation made about the UK is there's always an excess amplification of what various groups are alleged to believe.

Last I checked, the current King is in the "Leftist/Green" camp and pro-farmer. (by default, he'd be "UK" and not a "crowd" though).

[hermitcrab]

Is there any strong evidence that killing badgers reduces bovine TB?