Number of animals killed in the world by the meat, dairy and egg industries since you opened this webpage, not including the billions of marine animals killed annually.
"In the video footage from the investigation, workers at the Chinese farm pull rabbits out of cages by their ears and shoot the screaming animals in the head with captive-bolt guns, often multiple times. Rabbits with slit throats can be seen twitching and shaking, with their eyes wide open, before they die."
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My name is Jennie, and I'm a vegan. Vegans don't eat or use anything that comes from an animal. I've heard it described at "nothing that farts or has a face" but that's vulgar and I'm a prude. This blog is my labor of love, all about how I kick ass and take names on a regular basis.
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In China rabbits are just another animal to exploit like any other. In the U.S. rabbits are kept as pets, raised for meat and raised for fur. Sometimes simultaneously by the same people.
IMHO rabbits should be the ultimate "AR poster child" as they suffer all of the abuses of companion animals ( neglect, abandonment ), livestock animals and fur animals.
I have a friend who runs the local "rabbitwise" group. I have seen a lot of different kinds of rabbits. There is zero difference, except for size, between rabbits kept as pets, rabbits killed for fur and rabbits killed for meat.
Domesticated rabbits as well as rescued livestock rabbits are extraordinary friendly, gentle, cute and quiet creatures. I never thought I could bond with another type of animal the way I could bond with cats, but rabbits rock.
If they weren't so fragile and high maintenance as pets I would seriously have considered getting one.
If more people could spend time with rabbits there is no way they could eat or wear them.
FWIW, rabbit meat makes lousy nutrition. Rabbit meat is extremely low in several essential amino acids.
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Indeed. Thanks for the comment. Jen always talks to me about a pet rabbit she had when she was young. Smart as hell, apparently; with all the personality in the world. Rabbits are "poster children," which has it's place in the AR movement. However, we must avoid, as you suggest, and I think we have been successful in doing so up to a point, singularly focusing on the suffering experienced by these animals.
I think rabbit issues need more focus because rabbits are mostly ignored by animal protection groups. HSUS, ASPCA, etc are "cat and dog" groups. Groups that focus on promoting veganism that talk about livestock animals rarely talk about rabbits though you can find cows,pigs, chickens regularly in their lit.