Incinerate Rabbits for Fuel

The city of Stockholm enlists fluffle¹ cullers and carrion contractors to warm the homes of its citizens.

“[Rabbits] are a very big problem,” said Tuvunger. The rabbits are eating their way through the city’s central parks. “Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough; a contractor comes and takes them away.”²

It’s normal in Sweden for animal carcasses to be processed for bio-fuel. Rabbits are shot on sight and the frozen carcasses are shipped to a plant in central Sweden to be incinerated for power.

“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 the society told Vårt Kungsholmen newspaper, news Web site The Local reported.

Curiously, Johannesson points to slowly starving the rabbits³ instead of shooting them as a more humane way of going about the problem. The logic is not valid either. Even though she seemingly clearly gets around the idea of directly killing rabbits, she is still killing the rabbits by proxy of fraud, deceiving them into thinking their own food is not food, leading them to starvation.

Lineage: ABC News

1. A group of rabbits is called a “fluffle.” [↩]
2. “Bunnies for Biofuel: How Sweden Heats its Homes”, published by Speigel Online through ABC News. [HTML] [↩]
3. “Johannesson said there other methods of getting rid of rabbits besides killing them, such as spraying park plants with a chemical that makes them unappetizing to rabbits.” [HTML] [↩]