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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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To: Red Steel
“...shipped to a plant in central Sweden where they are burned and used to heat homes.”

The plant is in Karlskoga - Ripley's Believe it or Not! featured this a couple weeks ago.

“The plant's supplier, Konvex, a company that produces biofuels from animals...is a subsidiary of Danish group Daka Biodiesel which says on its Web site that it produces and markets biodiesel and bio fuel oil using animal fat extracted from ‘by-products from slaughterhouses and primary agriculture.’”

Their website:

http://www.dakabiodiesel.com/page552.asp

41 posted on 01/16/2010 10:45:35 PM PST by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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To: Graybeard58

“I agree. Why burn perfectly good food”

Not very good eating... they are loaded with parasites.


42 posted on 01/16/2010 11:03:01 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.)
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To: decal

Not going to get a lot of fat from rabbits.


43 posted on 01/16/2010 11:03:37 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Well, they don't just use rabbits - farm animals get into the act as well - Söylent Grön, as it were.
44 posted on 01/16/2010 11:12:49 PM PST by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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To: grey_whiskers; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Glenn Close is working again?


45 posted on 01/16/2010 11:28:48 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (HALP UZ AL GOR. PLEEZ SEND GLOBUL WARMING.)
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To: JSteff; Graybeard58
[Graybeard58:] I agree. Why burn perfectly good food

[JSteff:] Not very good eating... they are loaded with parasites.

... and not particularly nutritious - If one is ever stuck in the woods and relying upon rabbit for a singular food source, remember to eat the blood meats (heart, liver, kidneys) or risk protein deficiency.

Still, all in all - it fills the belly, and I would agree with Graybeard that it shouldn't be wasted.

46 posted on 01/17/2010 12:32:45 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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To: Cobra64

French Lop


47 posted on 01/17/2010 12:38:08 AM PST by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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To: Red Steel

“Honey, would you turn up the thermostat a hare more?”


48 posted on 01/17/2010 1:02:48 AM PST by marsh2
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To: justa-hairyape

OMG!!

What did they feed that monster bunny?


49 posted on 01/17/2010 1:12:10 AM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Impy

Just think, Australians could have been running Bugs power plants all these years.


50 posted on 01/17/2010 1:14:58 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Maybe the Aussies should learn from this.


51 posted on 01/17/2010 1:15:38 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; fieldmarshaldj

Paging Glenn Close. Oil crisis solved but we need your help.


52 posted on 01/17/2010 1:54:59 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: SatinDoll
Do not know. Just did a Google image search for giant rabbits. My guess is it ate whatever it wanted. They were probably captive bred for size.
53 posted on 01/17/2010 2:57:51 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Red Steel

BTUs = Bunny Thermal Units?


54 posted on 01/17/2010 3:14:39 AM PST by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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To: SatinDoll

“What did they feed that monster bunny?”

An orchard, looks like.


55 posted on 01/17/2010 4:40:37 AM PST by Levante
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To: Impy

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56 posted on 01/17/2010 5:35:30 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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To: Red Steel; Slings and Arrows

"I'll set your hare on fire, big boy..."

57 posted on 01/17/2010 6:08:48 AM PST by paulycy (The Liberals' DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE CRIMES.)
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To: Graybeard58
I agree. Why burn perfectly good food

They don't grow very much corn in Sweden.

58 posted on 01/17/2010 9:10:41 AM PST by norton
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To: proud_yank; Tijeras_Slim; Squantos; humblegunner

Slim, isn’t that your “glamor shot”?

;<)

That is one sick picture!


59 posted on 01/17/2010 12:28:51 PM PST by Eaker (Where I'm from, "Gang Colors" is Realtree and Mossy Oak. You know what I'm saying hoss. Rule.308.)
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To: Eaker

ROTFLMAO !!!

That’s a keeper !


60 posted on 01/17/2010 12:57:23 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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