Swedes burn wild bunnies for warmth

Culling vermin...


No... I hadn't heard of this before...


I am not outraged... after all, we are talking about animal control here... bunnies may look cute, but they ARE among the most destructive animals to crops.

 

Animal rights people are often a little unhinged. Their core ideals are great, but they often suffer from a lack of perspective, which then translates into these bizarre knee-jerk reactions.

Tom

 

In the UK rabbits are considered a nuisance, and if you don't keep their population under control on your lands you may be subject to a stiff fine. Some people hunt them for sport using ferrets and nets. I think maybe the brits are just too smart and practical to make it an animal rights or environmental issue.

 

I don't really think burning a dead bunny hurts it, or am I confused?
1, They need to reduce the population
2. They need to get rid of the bodies
what's the issue?
Please, I would rather be shot than have my nuts ripped out without anaesthetic..

 

Oh boy, I don't even want to THINK about it

[Hands protectively covering package]

 

I gather the animal-rights folks are upset about the rabbits being killed, not about the method used for disposing of the bodies afterwards.

One of my neighbors raised sheep. One day I stopped by, and he and his hired hand were castrating lambs. I was a bit shocked. Seemed awfully cruel. He insisted the pain was minimal. Regardless, most of the males of pretty much all farm animals are castrated. A few are kept whole for breeding. 50% of the steaks you eat came from castrated cows (the other half were female). Same for pigs, etc. So castrating wild rabbits would be no different than the way domesticated farm animals are treated.

Rabbits are terrible and extremely destructive pests. You either control them, or they will trash the landscape.

But I'm surprised they are burning the rabbits rather than processing them for their meat. It would seem to me the meat would be more valuable than the fuel. If the rabbits are diseased they could always sterilize them with radiation. (I've got no objection to meat being irradiated. I don't eat the stuff. )

 

I like ABBA.

 

I'm sorry daniel, but you cannot castrate cows...some kind of law against it...probably 'of nature'. :mmph:

Now bulls, yes, they can be castrated.

 

What do you expect from godless commies.

 

Seriously. You ever go to a French place and get the lapin? Every time I do I rack up a minimum $80 check.

 

From Dictionary.com; definition 3 for "cow":

 

Bunnies are much warmer alive, and they'll eat all sorts of stuff that would otherwise be thrown out. Just put a few in an enclosed box, run some ducting, and you have a bunny furnace. When there's too many, make stew. No need to burn them. :suspicious:

 

I wonder how warm Bunny poop burns. Don't beople out in fly over country burn cowpies? Somebody burns cow pies.

 

Now THAT is a recycling program I could get into!

Like most s***, you're better off putting it into a digester to get the methane, and then using the methane to burn for heat, or to run a combined cycle generator

 

Yeah, Indians, from India.

If you used bunnies for warmth then eat the excess bunnies, what are you going to cook them over? See, you can't make rabbit stew without burning a few bunnies.

 

Yes. After they've dried out. Wet poop does not burn. Gotta be dry. And it stinks. The early settlers on the Great Plains burned dry buffalo poop, and their sod huts stank to high heaven. Seriously.

 

We don't rip them out. Slice them, yes, but no ripping. Or use this tool, which cuts the cords and you won't feel anything from the other side.

I seem to remember the branding and de-horning (that is removing the keratin-covered protrusions on the skull, for you gutter-minded folks) causing at least as much, or more, howling as does the castration.

 

I need that tool. It could come in VERY handy dealing with juvenile car thieves around here