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Queen guitarist has been campaigning against badger culling to tackle bTB for more than a decade .
May, 77 , says badgers have been "brutally persecuted" Cattle are regularly tested and destroyed if the disease is found, with more than 50,000 slaughtered in the UK last year .
Leading vet says May 's findings could not be viewed in isolation.
Farmer who has lost 500 of his herd to disease said badgers "do contribute" to bTB problem.
Brian May: The Badgers , the Farmers and Me is on BBC Two at 19:00 BST on Friday .
A trial badger cull was established in the 1990s to assess its effectiveness in controlling bTB.
In 2011 , the UK government culled badgers in TB hotspots in England because badgers could be contributing to the spread of TB .
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