Rabbit Recycling

Apart from humane considerations, the idea of using frozen rabbits as fuel doesn't make sense. Burn something as fuel that is at least 60% water? Seems to me that more energy would be used to remove the water content than would be recovered from what remained. Rabbits don't have a lot of body fat, as a rule, and wild rabbits have even less. I don't get it.

Btw, here in the U.S., kitchen-sink waste disposals eat better than 98% of the Earth's population. How's that for compassion?

Rabbit meat contains few nutrients and no fat, only protein. Rabbit starvation, also referred to as protein poisoning, is the form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (e.g. rabbit) coupled with a lack of other sources of nutrients usually in combination with other stressors, such as severe cold or dry environment. Symptoms include diarrhea, headache, fatigue, low blood pressure and heart rate, and a vague discomfort and hunger that can only be satisfied by consumption of fat or carbohydrates. So feeding the needy nothing but Rabbit might be a little dodgey, unless in a stew.

I was going to come back to #4 with "that's how bears eat", but you're right. Feeding animals with the wrong food is wrong. I've heard deer cannot digest corn.

That still leaves mouthy sea lions on the menu, though. Plenty fat.

Lemmy,

Rabbit wrapped in Bacon is sooo good! That takes care of the fat deficiency.

(I need an emoticon that looks like a pig.)

Jon

That does sound good, though I have an inherent liver enzyme difficiency known as phenylketonuria so I have to limit my protein intake.

Lemmy,

Dang! Inconvenient.

Jon

There are plenty of hungry polar bears. Also send the excess sea lions from California. A polar bear knows just what to do with a mouthy sea lion.

Sue,

I think the bunnys escaped the predators by coming to town.

What is more humane? Trapping and euthanizing Rabbits or having them chewed up by some bloodthirsty sharp-toothed creature?
A rabbit is a big rat. They burn well once they are desicated.they can also be used to produce Biodiesel.

I would rather have one for a pet.

Stockholm has poor/needy people? It is said that you can live comfortably without working in Sweden and other European countries. Very high taxes and strong socialistic systems provide that. Fundamentally, socialism doesn't fight poverty. Socialism fights wealth. There is a problem with making everyone equal as opposed to treating everyone equally.

One day a frightened Coyote was found in an elevator in the Federal building in downtown Seattle. As the doors opened people were surprised to see such an animal. It is where it went to escape its attackers. There were reports of Crows chasing a Coyote through the streets toward downtown.

Jon

Since you capitalized, I assume you're writing about the indians from the Crow tribe?

TITI,

LOL

Sorry, no. They were big blackbirds picking on a coyote.

Jon

When I was younger i.e. in the years BME , ( before myxi), we would accompany grandad to the harvest shooting. The exciting part was when the binder was circling closer and closer to the last stand of corn (wheat to the Far Westerners amongst you), when the field would erupt with rabbits going in all directions.

He would dis-embowel his kill with a flick of his pen-knife , slit through the leg and pass one through the other and hang them on a stick.

After hanging a little they would be skinned and the skins hung again to dry , and then they would be sold to the scrap merchants. The bodies were re-cycled as food, but you must ask a scrap merchant from yore as to what happened to the skins apart from making clothing, and possible rendering for glue.

MMMmmmmmm.....the smell of burnt bunnies!!! I bet that smell goes over very well with the locals!!!????

Better off making rabbit stew or........Welsh Rabbit?????

BTW, my 5 Border Collies and Welsh Pembrooke Corgi would love to have some dumb bunnies just to case around in the back yard and to play with......After the bumper crop of wild bunnies around here this spring and summer they've all disappeared for some reason and my puppers don't have any playmates lately to chase!!!! *SIGH*

Ummmm ummmm slurppppp slurpppp.....woooffff!!!! *LOL*

If you're refering to "Welsh Rarebit?" That would only be of any use if a town was over-run by cheese rather than rabbits surely.

Take it from an 'Okie', there are surely a rendering plant in your great state, and our cows and horses and deer and, what have you, end up as 'you got it 'dogfood', if the number is not that great, start your own...see ya, Jim

Any surplus protein like a rabbit plague could be freeze dried and powdered for needy people anywhere in the world. True that takes energy. But what are the equations, what's the math on making protein powder vs burning bodies mostly water for energy? I'm sure Sweden gives something for global relief of famine. Wasting resources doesn't make sense...

This is a good idea for impoverished communities in this unequal world. I am available to conduct tests on the carcasses for diseases and other toxins harmful to humans. If these are cleared for human consumption I will need to establish export routes to the less needy, considering reqyuired permits and shipment costs etc

Good morning, all,

They (whoever 'they' are) who run the freeze & burn operation may not be using the "Soylent Green" recycling approach due to the possibility of the bunnies carrying diseases and/or parasites that could be transmitted to humans if something went wrong during the processing. In which case, disposal by fire is a logical choice.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm glad I already ate...

Logan