A rural town in New Zealand has been forced to cancel its annual rabbit-throwing competition after complaints from animal rights groups.Well, I’m not surprised! For once, the RSPCA is doing a good jo…
In the contest, which is held each year to coincide with the start of the pig hunt, children see how far they can throw a dead rabbit.Wait, what?
But the RSPCA said the rabbit-throw sent a message to children that dead animals were fun and could legitimately be used as a form of entertainment.And food. Don’t forget food!
Mind you, this makes the old admonition ‘Don’t play with your food’ look a little stupid. Just what possessed someone to complain about this? What sort of idiot thinks that dead animals are the remit of the RSPCA?
Charles Cadwallader, animal cruelty inspector, said the rabbit-throw was also cruel.Well, Chuck, my name’s not Fiver or Bigwig, so my dead grandmother isn’t likely to be a bloody rabbit…
"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?" he said.
And I fail to see how you could possibly be ‘cruel’ to an already dead animal…
The organiser of the pig hunt, Jo Moriarty, said the decision to can the event was political correctness gone mad.For once, that hackneyed phrase is perfectly apt, isn’t it?
And the award for the best straw man goes to...
ReplyDeleteCharles Cadwallader for:
"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?"
Charlie, it's not a funeral service for the rabbits. Nobody's there to mourn their passing. Jeez, what is it with the bloody Kiwis at the moment? Can't have cats or dogs, have to hold memorial services for Flopsy and Mopsy. Not like rabbits aren't a fucking plague on both sides of the ditch is it, Charlie? You're a twet, bro, a facking twet.
I think the question to ask is.
ReplyDeleteHow do they get the dead rabbit?
Somehow i doubt the scoure the countryside on the offchance they find some roadkill.
Just saying
Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?
ReplyDeleteWe do. Old Viking tradition.
Anonymous, there are a number of easy ways of obtaining a dead rabbit:
ReplyDelete1) Tesco sells dead rabbit (2 portions for £5) , so do these people: http://www.woldsway.co.uk/
2) first you catch your rabbit (out of a cage is the easiest) -- but, also, here is a trick that works epecially for PETA members: gently sprinkle salt on it's tail and when it turns to lick it off -- you grab the long-ear!(very easy, just need some patience)
3) Then you copy the method in this video: http://www.buildanark.net/videos/rabbit_killing.mov
4) To arrange a proper rabbit funeral, see here: http://pan-am.uniserve.com/pg000005.htm
Bon appetite, and don't forget, the liver and kidney gently fried in butter are the very best part!
"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?"
ReplyDeleteIt really shouldn't be necessary to say this, but if I did, it wouldn't be any of your fucking business.
Cotton wool kids! Lets not even tell them fluffy bunnies die and you can eat them!
ReplyDeleteThe stupidity of political correctness is doing my head in!
Bullfighting is still popular here (although I must admit if I do see it by accident, I cheer for the bull).. but children have to learn about life and death!
"Charlie, it's not a funeral service for the rabbits. Nobody's there to mourn their passing."
ReplyDeleteWhat with this, and the 'Eat Fido to save Gaia!' ecoloons reported at Mr E's, I think it must be a full moon or something...
"The stupidity of political correctness is doing my head in!"
Mine too...
"...although I must admit if I do see it by accident, I cheer for the bull..."
Well, sometimes, the beasts do get their own back. :)
What with this, and the 'Eat Fido to save Gaia!' ecoloons reported at Mr E's, I think it must be a full moon or something...
ReplyDeleteNa, at full moon, you just eat Granny and fuck the funeral.
"Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?"
ReplyDeleteYes. We did. After she was cremated we threw her ashes around. And sniggered at the idiot who stood downwind.
When I'm dead, I want to be cremated too. I have a list of people who should each receive a handful thrown in their faces.
So I can get right up their noses, one last time.
Because death can be funny.
"Children have to learn about life and death?" By throwing dead rabbits around for fun? What is wrong with you people? Is there something in the air down there that has contaminated your pitiful little brains?
ReplyDeleteThis is not political correctness. It's called morality you morons! If I didn't know better, I'd think you'd all gone to the redneck school of somewhere in the southeastern US.
How did the rabbits become dead? I'll bet my next month's salary it was by way of cruelty. How do you teach children to respect life in all forms? Even to respect death?
You people are sick and I'm grateful you're "down there" where you can't hurt anybody but yourselves. Oh and the worthless animals who don't deserve to live anyway right?
Jeesh!
"How did the rabbits become dead? I'll bet my next month's salary it was by way of cruelty. "
ReplyDeletePlease contact me so you can pay me the money -- despatching a rabbit properly is not cruelty and less traumatic than a natural death or dragging the creature down to the vet and stressing it in the process.
In fact, most people who keep meat rabbits know how to despatch a rabbit in one movement as they take it out of the cage, the beast is dead before it knows it.
Read here and educate yourself: http://www.grandin.com/humane/rec.slaughter.html