[Sustain] Burning Bunnies For Biofuel!

[Richard Knee]

PG&E's latest plan is to burn copies of the Bay Guardian.


Eric Brooks wrote:
> 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
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>   Burning bunnies for biofuel
>   <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/>
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> 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 
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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.
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>     3 Comment(s)
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>   1.
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>       *On Oct 21, 2009
>       <http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/21/burning-bunnies-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-97094>,
>       Jim said*:
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>       “officers use a special rifle, primarily at day break when furry
>       faces first peek out from their burrows”
>
>       Aw, poor bunnies :-(
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>   2.
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>       *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.
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>       *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
>
>
> -- 
> "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara
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