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Posted by Van Chocstraw on October 13, 2009, 5:26 pm
Twayne wrote:
>> From the world of The Hard To Believe:
>> "The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks
>> in Stockholm's Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a
>> heating plant in central Sweden."
>> With pic of dead rabbits and crematoria smoke stacks
>> http://www.thelocal.se/22610/20091012/
>> PETA folks so upset they're stabbing each other.
>> "First they came for the bunnies. I didn't complain because I was not
>> a rabbit..."
>
> Dairy farmers are sometimes routinely heating their homes from their
> barns; which are always warm regardless of the outside temperature. All
> it takes is a heat exchanger and insulation. Except for late fall and
> earl spring the house furnace seldom has to run. Barns never require any
> source of heat; the animal's bodies provides sufficient heat.
>
>
I rather doubt that. I grew up on a farm. They are warmer than out side
but nowhere near as warm as a home. Even 100,000 chickens in a chicken
barn needs to be heated in Maine. I have seen ice in the cows drinking
bowl in the morning in both a traditional barn and a free stall barn.
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>> "The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks
>> in Stockholm's Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a
>> heating plant in central Sweden."
>> With pic of dead rabbits and crematoria smoke stacks
>> http://www.thelocal.se/22610/20091012/
>> PETA folks so upset they're stabbing each other.
>> "First they came for the bunnies. I didn't complain because I was not
>> a rabbit..."