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Marin County Residents: Save Rabbits like Big Sur from Slaughter!

Marin County Residents: Save Rabbits like Big Sur from Slaughter!

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Big Sur was raised as a “stud” breeder rabbit at a meat facility in California. When he was discovered by his rescuer, he was covered in waste and urine that had been falling and dripping from cages stacked above his own, and both of his ears had been chewed off half way. He was covered in bite wounds, and was completely blind in his right eye from an untreated infection. When his rescuer saved him and rushed him to the vet, it was discovered that he also had major kidney damage due to a lack of an adequate supply of water and poor nutrition. This is how rabbits are treated by the meat industry. Big Sur had suffered these horrific conditions for 7 long years before his rescue, and yet, he is one of the lucky ones who has been set free. There are many more like him out there right now.

Earlier this year, Marin County’s Board of Supervisors voted to lift its 14-year ban on animal slaughter, allowing small-scale facilities to slaughter chickens, ducks, turkeys and rabbits. Rabbits were originally excluded from this new ruling, but a last-minute vote decided to add them back in.

Four out of five Marin residents consider rabbits as companion animals. Additionally, the recent California AB 485  “pet store” ruling which protects dogs, cats and rabbits from being raised in cruel breeding farms and sold in pet stores, reinforces the public consensus that rabbits are not food.

It’s a terrible injustice to have one law in California which protects rabbits from cruel pet-breeding farms, and another which allows them to be farmed in horrific conditions like Big Sur - covered in urine, suffering from infected wounds and completely mutilated.

AB 485 and the inconsistency it highlights in Marin’s ruling is the perfect opportunity to revisit the slaughter debate and potentially save thousands of rabbits in the immediate future. Once the debate is reopened, together we can work to draw parallels between rabbits and all farmed animals.

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