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Poor Rabbits

From Sandra Isobel Kyle
Facebook posting, September 2022

In France, the rabbits who survive being raised in filthy cages are then thrown alive into crates to be transported to slaughterhouses that operate with less regulation than other farmed animals.

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Poor rabbits. They are barely recognised as sentient. In my country, New Zealand, they are considered a ‘pest’ and shot or poisoned. It is considered a double virtue to eat them after shooting them, because not only do you get rid of the rabbit, by consuming them ‘nothing is wasted’.

When I lived in France fifty years ago rabbit meat was very common. I remember the two grandmothers of the family I was 'au pair' for going to the market early in the morning to bring back a whole rabbit that they spent the next few hours cleaning and gutting and baking for the midday meal. I’m not sure if it is as widely eaten in Europe now, but I do know that France is one of the biggest producers of intensively-raised rabbits.

In France, as no doubt elsewhere in the world, rabbits are raised in filthy cages in closed buildings that have no windows or access to the outside. Hundreds of thousands of them are fattened in tiny cages in which they cannot even turn. They can be seen, injured or in agony, lying next to the corpses of others who have – mercifully – died.

The ones who survive are then thrown alive in crates to be transported to slaughterhouses that operate with less regulation than other farmed animals.

They suffer terribly.

They do not deserve this.

No sentient animal deserves this.

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