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Bunny Boiling: Rabbits Burnt To Fuel City
Sky News ^
| October 21, 2009
| Hazel Tyldesley
Posted on 01/16/2010 8:04:48 PM PST by Red Steel
Swedes will turn on their central heating this winter in the knowledge that it may be powered in part by the burning carcasses of thousands of rabbits.
The creatures are being harvested from parks in Stockholm, shot dead, deep frozen and shipped to a plant in central Sweden where they are burned and used to heat homes.
Some 6,000 rabbits were killed last year for biofuel and 3,000 have so far been culled this year, Stockholm-based newspaper The Local reported.
It added that the effort to shoot the rabbits will be stepped up now autumn has arrived and the fallen leaves make it easier to track down the creatures.
Tommy Tuvunger, a worker for the agency that controls Stockholm's wild animal population, said many of those culled were former household pets, as they are not a breed native to Sweden.
Their appetite for foliage in the city's parks and their prolific breeding was creating a "very big problem" for Stockholm, he added.
"People who think that the bunnies are cute and cuddly suddenly don't think they're as fun anymore and put the animals outside. They think: 'there they can play with the other rabbits'," he told the newspaper Vårt Kungsholmen.
The authorities may see turning rabbits into biofuel as an efficient solution, but their tactic has met with objections from animal rights activists.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bunnies; bunnyshoot; napl
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:04:49 PM PST
by
Red Steel
To: Red Steel
I smell burning hare.
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:05:53 PM PST
by
Fast Moving Angel
(GOP: Stop listening, start doing -- we need new leaders!)
To: Red Steel
A novel idea....don’t let the Whale Wars idiots find out though.
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:06:26 PM PST
by
BallyBill
(WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
To: Red Steel
So Stockholm’s parks are full of rabbit shooters now? Why don’t they sell rabbit safari packages.
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:07:52 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz; null and void; martin_fierro
Like, *PING*, dudes.
Cheers!
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:08:54 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.http://home.tia)
To: Red Steel
They’re just wasting the Soylent Bunny!
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:10:42 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Red Steel
I'm hunting biofuel.
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:11:36 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Gore is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. He rides an icy horse bringing cold wherever he goes.)
To: Red Steel
...and the fallen leaves make it easier to track down the creatures... Because, as everyone who has ever hunted the wascaway wabbits knows, they like to hide in trees.
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:11:58 PM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
("It's not the number of burnt cars that worries me. It's the fact that everyone finds this normal..")
To: Red Steel
Be vewy vewy quiet because tonight we’re hunting wabbits!
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:12:51 PM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: Red Steel
"uh-uh-uh-uh-uh, its for the enVIWONment!!!"
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:14:46 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(Johnny Cash - "Lies have to be covered up, TRUTH can run around naked" (The Farmer's Almanac 1991))
To: Red Steel
To: Red Steel
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:20:09 PM PST
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: Red Steel
Has anyone got Jimmy Carter’s take on this yet?
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:22:20 PM PST
by
decal
(The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
To: Red Steel
Maybe the Cap and trade folks would allow this in AmeriKa?
Naw its too Un Politically correct.
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:23:04 PM PST
by
ncfool
(The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world.)
To: Fast Moving Angel
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:26:14 PM PST
by
Steamburg
( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
To: Red Steel
Hugh Hefner was deeply saddened . . .
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:27:18 PM PST
by
Petruchio
(Democrats are like Slinkies... Not good for anything, but it's fun pushing 'em down the stairs.)
To: Red Steel
This can't be good...
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:29:08 PM PST
by
OCC
To: Red Steel
Thing I need a bigger gun.
To: Red Steel
Well, now we know what the dems plan to do with all of the useless eaters if they manage to slam 0care through....
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posted on
01/16/2010 8:30:47 PM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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