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arkitect
Oct 16, 2009, 07:41 AM
Swedes divided over bunny biofuel

The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say.

The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the capital's parks and green spaces.

The rabbits, not native to Sweden, are mainly the offspring of pets released by owners, and are said to be destroying parks in the capital.

Since they have no natural predators, the city administration of Stockholm employs hunters to kill the rabbits.

Tommy Tuvunger, one of the hunters, told Germany's Spiegel website that 6,000 rabbits were culled last year, and another 3,000 this year.

"They are a very big problem," he said. "Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough, a contractor comes and takes them away."

The frozen rabbits are then taken to a heating plant in Karlskoga which incinerates them to heat homes.
BBC link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8309156.stm)

I don't know how to feel about this… on the one hand it isn't as if they are fed into the incinerator alive and kicking… or killed for fuel.
And well if there are so many carcasses I guess it would be foolish to waste it…
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46556000/jpg/_46556807_000213967-1.jpg
Still. :o:o Poor bunnies. :(


Unspoken Demise
Oct 16, 2009, 07:45 AM
http://www.optimuscrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/you-make-bunny-cry-small.jpg

Well, if the bunnies are creating an issue, its population control, and at least the carcasses are doing something useful.
iBlue
Oct 16, 2009, 07:49 AM
^ I was so going to use that image! :


I know just what you mean, arkitect.
whooleytoo
Oct 16, 2009, 08:36 AM
Eeek. Can't we just bury the bodies and then burn the fossil fuels in a few million years? That's been working well enough for the last few centuries..

It's a bit creepy, but it's no worse than we've been doing for thousands of years I guess.
arkitect
Oct 16, 2009, 08:52 AM
I know just what you mean, arkitect.
I'm just a softy. :o
Eeek. Can't we just bury the bodies and then burn the fossil fuels in a few million years? That's been working well enough for the last few centuries..

It's a bit creepy, but it's no worse than we've been doing for thousands of years I guess.

I can't wait for the next outbreak of "Foot and Mouth" or somesuch horror… :( Those images of the burning heaps of carcasses all around the countryside haunt me still…

Maybe we'll hook the national grid up to some proper incinerators next time.
ucfgrad93
Oct 16, 2009, 08:59 AM
Sounds like the Swedes are doing the sensible thing to me.
notjustjay
Oct 16, 2009, 10:05 AM
How is roadkill currently disposed of? That's not a bad way to get rid of it.
whooleytoo
Oct 16, 2009, 10:07 AM
I can't wait for the next outbreak of "Foot and Mouth" or somesuch horror… :( Those images of the burning heaps of carcasses all around the countryside haunt me still…

Maybe we'll hook the national grid up to some proper incinerators next time.

I wonder, should we hook up crematoriums to the national grid too? :eek:
arkitect
Oct 16, 2009, 10:24 AM
I wonder, should we hook up crematoriums to the national grid too? :eek:

*Bing*! I think we have a winner! :D

I'd be up for that…
bartelby
Oct 16, 2009, 10:28 AM
or killed for fuel.(

They're not really being killed for fuel. They're culled anyway and they've found a way to make use of the cute fuzzy bodies.
gilkisson
Oct 16, 2009, 10:29 AM
How is roadkill currently disposed of? That's not a bad way to get rid of it.

In places not far away, like this:
arkitect
Oct 16, 2009, 10:32 AM
They're not really being killed for fuel. They're culled anyway and they've found a way to make use of the cute fuzzy bodies.

I think you misread my post. ;) :p
on the one hand it isn't as if they are fed into the incinerator alive and kicking… or killed for fuel.

That would be truly gross.
bartelby
Oct 16, 2009, 10:34 AM
I think you misread my post. ;) :p


Ah, you are correct!

It's been a long day week :o
Mousse
Oct 16, 2009, 11:06 AM
Ack! Ever since I read that article, Elmer Fudd's Kill the Wabbit (to the tune of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries) has been looping non-stop in my head.:(:(:( Make it stop, make it stop.:eek:
Counterfit
Oct 16, 2009, 12:58 PM
Kill da wabbit, kill da waabbit, kill da waabbit, kill da wabbit...


Yeah, invasive species suck.
IntheNet
Oct 16, 2009, 04:21 PM
Swedes divided over bunny biofuel

Why burn the rabbits? Bunnies are great fried and taste like chicken! Swedes don't eat rabbits?
Blinkwing
Oct 17, 2009, 04:00 AM
New Zealand has had a possum infestation for the last century or so, Swedes are just starting to do the right thing :P

In NZ, gov't used to pay people around 50 cents per possum killed. Plus you could skin them and use the fur for socks/jumpers/blankets, etc. Some shops still sell possum clothes, I must say it's pretty cozy stuff!