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February 23, 2012
Outrage after rabbit slaughter broadcast
Published: 28 Oct 10 08:00 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/29868/20101028/
National broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) has sustained a wave of outraged reactions from viewers after a news programme showed excerpts from the slaughter of rabbits.
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"When I watched Rapport yesterday I could not believe what I was seeing, you showed at around 7.30pm how to kill a rabbit with what looked something like a hammer," wrote one outraged viewer.
The news programme ran a story about how rabbit is becoming an increasingly popular dish in Sweden, with 300,000 of the animals slaughtered each year to meet demand.
Many of these are killed illegally, according to the report.
SVT interviewed one of Sweden's five slaughter firms, run by Gösta Johnsson, who argues that approved methods, such as bolt gun, for slaughtering the rabbits are not particularly efficient.
"The brain is about as small as a hazelnut. And you have to hit it in the centre. If the rabbit jerks its head then you miss," he said.
Johnsson instead deploys an alternative method of clubbing the rabbit to death and despite having been fined for the illegal method on several occasions, he continues to defend the practice.
"Hitting an animal in the head is considered very negative in Sweden. But it is by far the safest and best method, which has been used for over a hundred years."
The film of a rabbit being slaughtered using the clubbing method has now been reported to the Broadcasting Commission by a further disgusted viewer.
Rapport editor-in-chief, Morgan Olofsson, has meanwhile defended the decision to broadcast.
"Rapport's mission is to describe reality, had we reported on this without showing the pictures then we wouldn't have done it," he explained, adding that Rapport is no children's programme and that viewers were warned prior to the start of the programme.
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We don't have to eat meat.
He's trying to find the most efficient method for slaughter, and if he can kill a rabbit quicker and more efficiently with a hammer than a bolt gun, why not? I'm pretty certain his best interest is to kill the animals as quick as he can...a suffering rabbit from a missed bolt that's bleeding and flopping around in pain isn't going to make his business run any smoother.
But that isn't what this is about, this is about it being shown on TV to the public and the viewers being offended. But hey, it was on SVT on one of the publicly funded crap channels that we all must shell out heaps of money in TV tax mandatorily to fund but hardly anyone cares to watch. Just send out a written apology to all three viewers of the show and call it a done deal. *shrug*
I´d use an axe myself.
Faster, smoother, pain-free and very kind to the kind protein-giving herbivore.
for example in Australia, government have to spent million of dollar just to kill camels and other animals just to decrease their population.. in Sweden, goverment have to kill animal too like wolf etc...
Today we even have rules and regulations on killing pigeons, for god´s sake.
I mean, sure enough, you don´t kill animals for fun but if they, for example get inside a supermarket, I happen to know some animal-right defenders don´t like it if these stray ones are just killed off. They pose a risk for an infection as they don´t care where they crap and walk around.
It´s amazing. You need a permit to kill a goddamn pigeon.
But all he wants is a tasty meal out of a dead body.
And no stories about how it came onto the dinner table.
Outer disturbace is inner disturbance.
|EAT IT RAW!
Will all you vegetarian bashing so called meat eaters give it a break
Most veggies can eat their food raw !
I am a Chef and see the total contradictions of meat eaters ,she does not like blood ,can you nuke this Chef there was blood , medium well ,well done , cremated and that is what modern day meat eaters are like !
Lambs liver raw ,try it or maybe you are enjoying nuggets made from the parts of an animal that Chef,s would not even touch !!
Most meat eaters are total wimps when it comes to eating the animal as a whole , they only want prime cuts ,forget the rest of the animal ,they are scared as xxxxt !
If an animal is slaughtered it should be as humane as possible and if eaten should be consumed and respect paid ,
But please do not knock vegetarians ,their choice and total respect .
This form of slaughter is wrong and the meat produced crap !!
why don't they just break the rabits neck?
or maybe it should be done halal .... cut it's throat!
Earhole, Eyeholes and Ärsehöles included...
Meat eaters today are gutless, scared people. Don't eat meat if you can't stand how your dinner came to be.