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Badger cull: Princess Anne calls for 'humane' gas death instead of shooting
As ministers abandon cruel massacre, Princess Royal holds forth on badgers and horse meat

Princess Anne called yesterday for badgers to be treated in a “much nicer” way — by gassing instead of shooting them.

Ms Mountbatten-Windsor claimed that it would be much more humane than pilot shooting culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset.

But experts said that it would be difficult to get gas levels high enough in badger setts.

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