The Swedes are using rabbits to power a heating plant near Stockholm. This is no joke - the corpses of many thousands of wild rabbits killed each year from Stockholm’s parks and managed land are being used to fuel a solid fuel heating plant in central Sweden.

The rabbits are part of the thousands which are culled each year as Sweden suffers from a chronic over population of rabbits in its many parks. And the swedes in their ever practical Ikea like manner are prone to be efficient and waste nothing.

Animal rights activists have claimed that domestic pets are also being rounded up and incinerated, but have produced little or no evidence to this effect.

“Those who support the culling of rabbits think it’s good to use the bodies for a good cause. But it feels like the power company is trying to turn the animals into an industry rather than look at the main problem,” said Anna Johannesson of the Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits.

The rabbits who are going up in smoke were the inhabitants of Stockholm’s parks who are culled to protect the plants and trees on which they gorge. But some of them were tame domestic pets turned loose by owners who no longer want them, and obviously did mind what fate befell them.

Six thousand rabbits were burned last year, when their corpses were frozen and then sent to the heating plant at Karlskoga, in central Sweden, where the bodies were burnt in order to help heat the homes in the surrounding areas.

Local animal rights activists have surprisingly called for improved treatment for the wild rabbits,

Mrs. Johannesson informed the newspaper Vart Kungsholmen; “We want to see them start looking at other solutions for the rabbits. Helsinki in Finland sprays the plants to make them unappetizing and they have also set up a system of shelters for animals to be donated to. They have come much further along than us.”

No one has wondered about the logical reason for unneeded expending energy in freezing the rabbits before burning.

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