Rabbits

SENTIENT AND SOCIAL BEINGS

Rabbits are intelligent, curious animals with unique personalities. Extremely social, they naturally live in structured groups and communicate using a wide variety of body and vocal signals. They are clean creatures who love to explore, dig, and express their natural behaviors.

INTENSIVE CAGE FARMING

In the fur and meat industries, rabbits are almost universally confined to individual or group wire mesh cages of utter crampedness. Deprived of any contact with soil or grass, they have no way to express their fundamental instincts. Their paws are constantly injured on the metal wire floors, causing chronic sore hocks (ulcerative pododermatitis).

MENTAL HEALTH and PSYCHOLOGICAL SUFFERING

Extreme confinement and isolation generate profound psychological stress. Many trapped or caged rabbits develop stereotyped behaviors, such as obsessively chewing on cage bars or self-mutilating. Infant and juvenile mortality is particularly high due to overcrowding, heat, and unsanitary conditions.

MUTILATIONS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT

To cope with the devastation of diseases in these overcrowded conditions, the preventative administration of antibiotics is massive. Furthermore, breeding does are kept in a perpetual cycle of gestation: they are repeatedly and forcibly inseminated to produce nonstop litters, then slaughtered as soon as their productivity declines.

TRANSPORT AND SLAUGHTERHOUSE

When they reach just a few months of age, rabbits are crammed into transport crates without food or water, enduring long, stressful journeys to the slaughterhouse. Once there, they are generally hung by their legs, then stunned by electrocution or struck before being bled to death, often under conditions of great brutality.

FUR AND MEAT

Their remains provide both meat and fur. The latter is frequently used to trim clothing, craft fashion accessories, or make toys, thereby normalizing animal exploitation and suffering for the sake of superfluous commerce.