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The exploitation and abuse of rabbits on farms is an alarming practice that has raised growing concern among animal rights advocates and conscientious consumers. These animals, raised primarily for their meat, skin, and angora wool, are often subjected to deplorable living conditions and inhumane treatment in industrial facilities.

Imagine that you, or the person you love most, are kidnapped and locked in tiny, overcrowded wire cages, where you cannot move freely or express your natural behaviours. Because the cage is made of metal, it causes injuries to your legs and considerable discomfort. The lack of space and stimulation leads to physical and psychological health problems, including acute stress.

Unsanitary conditions, overcrowding, poor nutrition, and cruel treatment have a devastating impact on your health. You are likely to suffer from sores on your feet due to the lack of suitable resting surfaces, as well as respiratory infections, skin infections, or digestive diseases.

Overcrowding also creates such a toxic environment that it leads to abnormal behaviours, such as aggression and self-mutilation.

The combination of confinement, rough handling, painful procedures, and a lack of mental stimulation causes a high level of stress and psychological suffering. This, in turn, weakens the immune system, making you more susceptible to disease.

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As if that were not enough, parts of your body may be mutilated without anaesthesia, such as trimming your teeth to prevent biting, or cutting your ears and tails to make handling easier. This causes extreme pain and additional anxiety.

Even at the end of your life, there is no compassion, as you are taken to a killing facility where you are killed in an undignified and distressing way at an age far earlier than your life expectancy would be under normal conditions.

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All of this, provided that you have managed to survive until that point, as 20% do not make it that far, because they fall along the way due to a life in deplorable conditions.

What would you think of all this? Because that is exactly what they do each year to more than 1 billion rabbits.

These animals, which are naturally sociable and active, suffer enormously under the restrictive and deprived conditions of industrial farms.

In the case of angora rabbits, used for their wool, the abuse is extreme. To obtain their fur, they are subjected to a painful process of shearing or plucking. This is repeated every few months and, in many cases, causes open wounds and severe trauma. Undercover investigations on angora farms have revealed scenes of rabbits screaming in pain as their fur is torn out.

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Even shearing, although less painful, is stressful and can lead to injuries if it is not carried out carefully.

WHAT CAN A DECENT AND KIND PERSON DO TO PREVENT SO MUCH ABUSE?

1. Sign this campaign by Anima Naturales: https://www.farmedanimals.org/rabbits?s=6be9c2e840

2. Sign this campaign by the Institute of Wellbeing:

3. Choose plant-based options

4. Share and persuade

Read more solutions in…

HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARM: 10 actions to prevent animal abuse

If you have read all of the above, it is because you have sensitivity and a natural sense of ethics that has driven you to do so. I hope it also motivates you to sign, share, and so on.

Thank you.