No Onion story -- people protesting the sale of rabbit meat at Whole Foods

[xiggi]

<p>No joke - No April 1st</p>

<p><a href=“Are Rabbits Pets or Meat? - The Atlantic”>Are Rabbits Pets or Meat? - The Atlantic;

<p>And, of course, we can count on the input of our academic stars:</p>

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But Margo DeMello, a professor of cultural anthropology at Canisius College, is convinced grocery stores shouldn’t sell rabbit meat. DeMello, who is the president of the House Rabbit Society and a co-author of the book Stories Rabbits Tell, says it’s a problem that stores carry the meat of “an animal that has been embraced as a pet in millions of American households.” Sure, Whole Foods’s decision was a response to demand, she says, but they’re only going to end up creating more of it by putting it in their stores.

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<p>Seriously?</p>

[sorghum]

<p>There are no academic stars at Canisius College.</p>

[GMTplus7]

<p>I beat you to it, Xiggi. There’s already a Bunny Foo Foo thread:
<a href=“Little Bunny Foo Foo: pet or meat? - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums”>Little Bunny Foo Foo: pet or meat? - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums;

[Cardinal_Fang]

<p>This makes sense to me. I’ll eat rabbit and have no objection to Whole Foods selling it, but if some consumers want to persuade Whole Foods that the bad publicity attending rabbit sales overwhelms the benefit of selling it, more power to them. </p>

[xiggi]

<p>Oops!</p>