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Sweden burns bunnies for warmth

Move over ethanol, there is a new bio-fuel in the world… bunnies. Thousands of stray rabbits in Sweden are being shot, frozen and then burned for heat. Stockholm even hires rabbit hunters for the task, like Tommy Tuvuynger, a modern day Elmer Fudd. “We are shooting rabbits in Stockholm center, they are a very big ...

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Move over ethanol, there is a new bio-fuel in the world... bunnies.

Move over ethanol, there is a new bio-fuel in the world… bunnies.

Thousands of stray rabbits in Sweden are being shot, frozen and then burned for heat. Stockholm even hires rabbit hunters for the task, like Tommy Tuvuynger, a modern day Elmer Fudd.

“We are shooting rabbits in Stockholm center, 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.”

Tuvunger is leading the fight to continue sniping bunnies for warmth. Several animal rights groups in Sweden have come out in opposition to the practice, saying that if the rabbits are a problem there are non-lethal ways to deal with them. But Tuvunger is having none of that, “If you do that you only move the problem 100 meters away.”

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Bobby Pierce is an editorial researcher at Foreign Policy.
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