The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.
The decision to use Stockholm’s rabbit cadavers as bioenergy to warm Swedes living in Värmland doesn't sit well with Stockholm-based animal rights activists.
“Those who support the culling of rabbits surely think it’s good to use the bodies for a good cause. But it feels like they’re trying to turn the animals into an industry rather than look at the main problem,” Anna Johannesson of Vilda kaniners värn (‘Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits’) told the local Vårt Kungsholmen newspaper.
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Right man! And just in case you did not know here in Helsinki the city rabbits get systematically killed in the dawn by men with bow and arrow - and where you think they end up? Well they are going to be fed to the lions in the local Korkeasaari Zoo.
ReplyDeleteYou see the zoo have been buying Hungarian rabbits until this day - but are now to switch to a domestic food souce.