Those Moral Swedes
Sweden has qualms about burning bunnies to heat Bjorn’s bungalow:
Residents in Stockholm are divided over reports that rabbits are being used to make biofuel.
The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say.
The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the capital’s parks and green spaces.
The rabbits, not native to Sweden, are mainly the offspring of pets released by owners, and are said to be destroying parks in the capital.
Since they have no natural predators, the city administration of Stockholm employs hunters to kill the rabbits.
Tommy Tuvunger, one of the hunters, told Germany’s Spiegel website that 6,000 rabbits were culled last year, and another 3,000 this year.
“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.”
The frozen rabbits are then taken to a heating plant in Karlskoga which incinerates them to heat homes.
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“In the town where they are burning them the reaction of the residents is quite relaxed,” Mr Savage told the BBC World Service. “But in Stockholm there’s the big city attitude of the rabbits being cute.
But they are quite all right with mistreating animals not quite as cute as bunnies, Jews:
No recent media infraction captures the dangers of abandoning journalistic standards as vividly as the August 17, 2009 Aftonbladet story alleging Israel plunders and trafficks Palestinian organs. Appearing in its Culture section, the account was a concoction of baseless innuendo, false charges and guilt-by-association conspiracy theory, weaving disconnected events from past and present. Within weeks, the claims metastisized in Middle East media into lurid variations on the old blood libel of Jews plundering organs and drinking the blood of non-Jews. Incendiary cartoons and fantastic stories of Jewish child-snatching appeared.
It’s one of the oldest libels in the storied tradition of anti-Semitism, and the Swedes have merely dusted it off and put a good dance beat underneath it. And they don’t seem bothered in the least to have done so.
Okay, fine. Here’s one Jew who’s cute as a bunny.
