Farmers' leaders give thumbs up to send badgers into space!

In the United Kingdom the problem of bovine tuberculosis in cattle has often been put squarely at the door of the poor old badger!

Despite culling trials lasting eight years at a cost in excess of £100 million and results suggesting culling of badgers does not reduce the spread of TB; many farmers remain unconvinced!

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(DEFRA)in association with NASA have come up with a novel solution......send badgers into space!!

The aptley named Professor Brockleorbit, project director,said "after years of research and lengthy discussions with stakeholders, we were left with two options: 1) Turn them all into shaving brushes or 2)Send them into space! Consultations with farmers' leaders resulted in 90% in favour of the latter.

Early talks with Gillette (the best a man can get)collapsed after

revelations that all British farmers have beards, and rarely use a shaving brush!

"Badgers are ideally suited for life in space" Brockleorbit explains....."Badgers will all be equiped with a five-year supply of peanut butter and worms in an 'on-demand' dispenser attached to a space helmet; badgers will float around in space until they find somewhere suitable to live. Badgers' natural propensity to go down holes will surely secure their survival. We are very excited about this, as we are predicting that we will be able to attach sensors to a sample of badgers,so we can record conditions inside mysterious blackholes"

He went on to say, that protests by animal welfare groups and some badgers are ill informed, as he has evidence that badgers are natural space explorers.

For example: Large numbers of badgers have been regularly recorded milling around outside the entrance to the Large Hadron Collider high energy particle accelerator near Geneva, on the Franco-Swiss border.

Brockleorbit reveals,that in preliminary trials, where an undisclosed number of badger clusters have been launched into space; they are already showing signs of establishing family groups and are all sett (see what I did there) to be masters of the universe!

 Satellite images are  startling........