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 ...
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:
“I agree. Why burn perfectly good food”
Not very good eating... they are loaded with parasites.
Not going to get a lot of fat from rabbits.
... 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.
French Lop
“Honey, would you turn up the thermostat a hare more?”
OMG!!
What did they feed that monster bunny?
Just think, Australians could have been running Bugs power plants all these years.
Maybe the Aussies should learn from this.
Paging Glenn Close. Oil crisis solved but we need your help.
BTUs = Bunny Thermal Units?
“What did they feed that monster bunny?”
An orchard, looks like.
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"I'll set your hare on fire, big boy..."
They don't grow very much corn in Sweden.
Slim, isn’t that your “glamor shot”?
;<)
That is one sick picture!
ROTFLMAO !!!
That’s a keeper !
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