Stockholm's rabbits burned to keep Sweden heated

telegraph.co.uk ^ | Oct 13, 2009 | Allan Hall

[smokingfrog]

The bodies of thousands of wild rabbits culled each year from Stockholm's parks are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.

Animal rights activists have claimed that domestic pets are also being rounded up and incinerated.

"Those who support the culling of rabbits think it's good to use the bodies for a good cause. But it feels like the power company is trying to turn the animals into an industry rather than look at the main problem," said Anna Johannesson of the Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits.

The rabbits going up in smoke are the inhabitants of Stockholm's parks who are culled to protect the shrubs and trees on which they gorge. But many of them are tame domestic pets turned loose by owners who no longer want them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

sounds like Green Renewable Energy to me!!

[techcor]

Hare today, gone tomorrow.

[MortMan]

Thumper’s gonna burn for this...

[ThomasThomas]

Any connect this post and your screen name?

[GeronL]

that is definitely renewable energy

[CaptainK]

Does the air smell like stew?

[Responsibility2nd]

 

[WOBBLY BOB]

no sound so bad as a screaming , firey rabbit.

[militant2]

This’d make a great Monty Python skit.....

Militant

[ClearCase_guy]

Bonfire of the Bunnies

[dfwgator]

Pets, or meat, or fuel.

[dfwgator]

[sanjoaquinvalley]

Shhh - Don't tell Pelosi. I'm afraid of who she might volunteer for the job.

[mikrofon]

The practice is angora-ing animal rights activists around the world and enough to make their hares stand on end...

[Tijeras_Slim]

[pappyone]

Smokey the Rabbitt says: Only you can prevent bunny fires.

[smokingfrog]

Just doing my part to prevent the bunny holocaust.

I think Alan Grayson needs to be told about this immediately.

[Slings and Arrows]

This was your idea, wasn’t it?

[Buckeye McFrog]

if this idea catches on those Aussies will be living like Saudi Princes