Posted on 05/27/2015 4:25:33 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
A Danish radio station is defending a show during which the host killed a baby rabbit by hitting it with a bicycle pump, live on the air, saying it was intended to show the hypocrisy of animal lovers.
The host, Asger Juhl, killed the baby rabbit, called Allan, "according to careful instructions by a professional animal caretaker from a Danish zoo", station 24/7 said on Tuesday. He later took the rabbit home, skinned it and cooked it.
Monday's show caused a storm on social media, with many Danes outraged. "They are sick. Euw! THEY should have a bicycle pump in their faces," Facebook user Melissa Rod wrote of the radio show.
"We knew we would be accused of provocation," the station said in a statement. "And yes, we indeed wanted to provoke the public and to stir a debate about the hypocrisy when it comes to perceptions of cruelty towards animals."
During the broadcast, the station provided details of the livestock industry in Denmark, where people are outnumbered by pigs for slaughter. It said Danes' concern for animal welfare did not extend to the way animals are killed for their dining room tables.
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Only at Easter time
Killing a rabbit for food is one thing, but the moment they gave it a name, “Allan”, it transitioned to being a pet.
There is a huge difference (albeit only in our minds) between Rabbits and Bunnies. The average person does not do live on-air sacrifices of Bunnies to teach a radio audience the fine points of animal cruelty. A bit of a disconnect going on there.
arbeit macht frei.
‘Does McDonald’s use the whole baby rabbit in their chicken nuggets?”
No, they sell the feet for key chains and the tail for putting on makeup. After they blind them by spraying deodorant or hair spray into their eyes to see what it does. Of course the pelts make cute little hats and trim stuff. It’s what rabbits do.
My cousin lives on a ranch. She raises one cow for themselves. It gets named, and after a few years of being in the yard and good feed, it gets slaughtered.
At the original Passover (and I suppose subsequent ones), the Jews were to bring the sheep to be sacrificed into the home for a period of time. (I don’t recall how long, a week? 40 days?) But long enough to become a “pet” - and for the sacrifice to take on more meaning.
Why would a zoo keeper know about how the typical way to kill a rabbit (or any animal) is done? I suppose they couldn’t find a rabbit farmer to go on air. I’m surprised the tool of choice for zoo keepers (or rabbit farmers) is a tire pump.
IMO, the only way to kill a rabbit is to track it down, shoot it, prepare it, give it to a good cook (I’m not) and serve it to your family for food. Taught that by my father, God rest his soul.
Like many European countries, Denmark allows for a “passive” form of euthanasia by which doctors halt medical care.
I’ll bet over 50% of rabbits (living in the wild) have unpleasant deaths.
I bet it is higher than 50%. Getting shot by a hunter is probably the easiest death for a rabbit. I suppose some are trapped - that can’t be too much fun. Dogs, wolves, owls, lynx, etc. are probably the worst way to go. I’m guessing not too many rabbits die of old age and curl up under a log and drift off to their final sleep. Sucks to be at the low end of the food chain. As a kid growing up in Minnesota I shot many rabbits. (Mom would cook them up though!)
Psychopathic behavior. Id have beat he sh1t out of the guy. There was no need for it. A$$hole of a human being.
The name makes a difference? My cousin raised a pig for slaughter (won a 4H competition along the way) and he named it “Barbecue.”
When eagles pray “Give us this day our daily bread,” what they mean is, mice.
After watching two of my grandparents waste away for months to the point where they did die, I’m inclined to be on the side of euthanasia. I certainly didn’t make my dog live out his natural days once he got pancreatic cancer, why would I want my grandparents or parents to linger in pain?
(my parents both fully agree with me on this)
I raised rabbits slaughtered 50 to 100 a year. Whack them in the head with a good stick dead right there.
I have hunted and shot hundred more of them.
Rabbits are food.
Anybody ever drive through Idaho at night?
I did, and I stopped counting all the poundings on my front car bumper. There were jackrabbits everywhere. I must have hit 50 of them. Felt bad about it, but I could no more avoid them than the gnats squashed on the windshield.
Back during WW II, when Dad was off to war and meat was rationed, we raised rabbits. It fell to me, the oldest child, to kill and dress them. The way to do it is grab the hind legs in your left hand (assuming you're right handed), put your right hand around the head with your thumb on the back of the neck, and stretch the rabbit's neck to stun it. Then take a hammer-handle and whack it behind the head to break the neck. Hang it by a hook though the joint in a hind leg and cut the head off. Cut off the front paws, then cut the pelt around the hind legs. The pelt can then be pulled off. Then cut open the abdominal cavity and clean out the lungs, heart and intestines. At that point turn it over to Mother to wash, cut up and cook.
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