[Sustain] Burning Bunnies For Biofuel!

[Eric Brooks]

As I predicted, animal based fuels are becoming an insanity..

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-97303


  Burning bunnies for biofuel
  <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/>

By Luna Finnsson <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/author/charlie/> on 
Oct 21, 2009 in Energy <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/news/energy/>, 
MBL <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/news/mbl/>, Sweden 
<http://www.icenews.is/index.php/news/countries/sweden/>, environment 
<http://www.icenews.is/index.php/news/environment/>


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kanínaStockholm's Kungsholmen neighbourhood has solved the problem of 
finding fuel for a central heating plant by using thousands of rabbits 
as firewood.

The Local reports that each year, thousands of the animals are culled 
from surrounding parks, although the use of the cadavers as a bioenergy 
source has not met with a favourable reaction from animal rights groups. 
Locals have pointed to the Finnish practice of spraying the plants to 
make them less appealing as a more practical solution, although Helsinki 
recently revealed that many carnivores at the city zoo were fed rabbits 
hunted down by city authorities.

Last year a reported 6,000 Swedish rabbits were rounded up and 
slaughtered before being sent to the heating plant in Karslkoga. 
Authorities claim the move is designed to protect the city's vast 
network of green spaces. Rather than dispose of the rabbits, the city 
froze the carcasses before sending them to the incinerators.

Anna Johannesson of the Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits said: 
"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".

The Stockholm Traffic Office's Tommy Tuvunger said part of the problem 
was due to delinquent pet owners who allow their rabbits to hop free in 
the city's parklands. The Traffic Office is responsible for the control 
of Stockholm's rodent and wild animal numbers and admits that many of 
those culled are tame animals.

Tuvunger went on to state that it only takes a few of the animals to 
engage in the practice that rabbits are most famous for creating a 
massive problem for authorities. To counter the population explosion 
officers use a special rifle, primarily at day break when furry faces 
first peek out from their burrows. The job is made easier in winter as 
falling leaves make targets more visible. "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'," said Tuvunger.


    3 Comment(s)

   1.

      *On Oct 21, 2009
      <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-97094>,
      Jim said*:

      "officers use a special rifle, primarily at day break when furry
      faces first peek out from their burrows"

      Aw, poor bunnies :-(

   2.

      *On Oct 21, 2009
      <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-97097>,
      rose_lingerie <http://www.gossard.com> said*:

      This is rather disturbing. What's next? burning human bodies??
      People have to draw a line somewhere.

   3.

      *On Oct 22, 2009
      <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-97303>,
      Eric Brooks said*:

      //

      Those rabbits should be culled through reintroduction of natural
      predators like foxes and wolves, not by burning them as fuel and
      unnecessarily releasing yet more carbon into the atmosphere.

      Such insanity heads us squarely back to the nineteenth century,
      during which massive numbers of whales, fish and other wildlife
      were unsustainably slaughtered for fuel oil.

      We had animal based fuels in that day, and it was one of the most
      destructive mistakes in human ecological history.

      Eric Brooks
      San Francisco Green Party
      Sustainability Working Group


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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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