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This Rabbit Hutch Kills Fascists
This Rabbit Hutch Kills Fascists
Early this morning before heading off to work, I was dragging our rabbit tractor with 10 juvenile bunnies eight feet into new grass and was reminded of an exchange I had on Zero Hedge several days earlier.
Well, when it's the only thing you can afford - then of course you are going to buy it.
Consumers WANT to make better choices...
This is such horseshit. Stop kidding yourself.
Consumers only real choice is to consume MOAR or MOARER.
Consumer's give up any real power to choose when they become consumers.
Do my cattle, rabbits, and chickens get to choose what they want to eat? No.
The producers get to choose to feed you whatever is most profitable.
Don't be a consumer, be a producer, if you really and truly do, "...WANT to make better choices."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-21/are-amercians-turning-their-bul...
Then, I thought about Warren Buffet’s recent acquisition of Heinz and the fact that Coca Cola, Wal-Mart, ADM (Supermarket to the World), Kraft Foods, John Deere, and Costco are also major holdings of Berkshire Hathaway. I remembered how I felt when I discovered that our elected representatives have made it illegal for anyone other than the government to test for Mad Cow Disease in the United States. I remembered reading Ron Paul’s letter regarding raw milk producers being raided. One of the characteristics of a fascist nation came to mind:
Then a funny idea occurred to me. Woody Guthrie often performed with the phrase, “This Machine Kills Fascists,” inscribed on his guitar.
I considered that this machine, my rabbit tractor, also kills fascists in the exact same way, and so do my handmade rabbit hutch, mobile chicken house, garden, and fruit trees.
Is raising some rabbits or chickens in your backyard or on your apartment’s rooftop really going to change the world? I don’t know. No single drop of water ever believes it is responsible for the flood. I do know that it is incredibly satisfying to take action. What is the saying? Knowledge without action is insanity.
Raising rabbits is easy, they breed like rabbits, and it is especially fun and rewarding if you have children. Rabbits are probably the best animal to learn to butcher, and the meat is delicious and healthy. Here are a couple of excellent resources if you want to be a raindrop:
Bass Equipment Company
http://www.bassequipment.com/default.aspx
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition
Carla Emery, $ 19.77
Especially if one does not live on a farm, it is a good thing to know the how, when, what, and where of providing for ourselves.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-01-24/will-you-pay-kid-read-12...
Finally, here are some of our results to help motivate you.
Rabbit cooked in cream, white wine, and rosemary with potato galettes.
Rabbit cooked in vinegar with whipped parsnips.
Roasted rabbit loin with home-grown haricots verts and wild rice.
The rabbit hutch built by me and the little horsemen.
What a fun way for kids to learn multiplication.
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Don't worry about killing the rabbits. The Dept of Homeland Security will provide you with some stuffed toy bunnies to practise on first. Before you know it you'll have no trouble at all.
So much easier to buy an anonymous bit of plastic wrapped protien from a supermarket, harvested from some poor creature that's been mistreated all of it's life then given a cruel and heartless death.
It's just that you should not take an animals life with ease, you deserve to shoulder this burden if you want to eat its flesh. You owe the poor critter that much at least. It's called compassion.
I agree. If we all raised our own we would be eating a lot less of it. Us and the stock would have a much better quality of life up until the end. It is very easy to go through a drive through and pay $7 for a horseburger. I cant say I'm there yet though, I'm not eating hot pockets but I'm not raising my own either. My fruit trees/permaculture and hugelkultur beds are coming along however.
Living in a high density feed lot to end up in a hot pocket would be just about as bad as it could get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-i9GXbptog
Amen! Also, most meat is handled by illegal labor, who is treated as bad as the animals.
Am I the only one fascinated by the presence of poets and deeply sensitive, moral, and caring individuals here at the ground zero of capitalism?
Free enterprise is moral, ethical, sensitive, and caring. Too bad we're not living under it.
Ethical capitalism is fine. Zerohedge is about people who know their getting fucked, and not having a wet dream.
I don't think you should be surprised. I think the common thread of readership is truth/justice over time. Lets find out who we have here. Up arrow if Shawshank Redemption is the greatest movie of all time.
Yup. I've seen it dozens of times and I still get chills when Andy makes it out of the river of shit and comes out clean on the other side, standing in the rain a free man. Something about freedom...
12 guage from 10 feet
you like your lead with a bit of rabbit do you?
try 12 gauge from 1 foot perhaps
seven people thought I was serious.
Put a foot on its head and yank up on its rear legs to break its neck.
I airgun mine in the back of the head. They bleed out that way, and it's easier on everyone. I put them in a box with some food, they look down and start to eat, and it's over. Also, if your handling volume http://www.therabbitwringer.com/
You could also hang a rope noose on a crossbeam, slid the head in, tighten down, & then give it a good yank...
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[oops ~ I didn't see the link... same concept]
And don't give them names.
Do give them names.... Lloyd Blankfien, Jamie Dimond, Rothschild...Warren Buffet....George Bush Junior/Senior, Kissinger...and so on
Kill banksters by feeding them feet first into wood chippers.
Meat slicer, one slice at a time....
I thought that technique was used to incapacitate a bankster.
Or.. hold it by the hind legs, stroke it to calm it down and then swing its head forcefully into a tree or post.. that’s how we did it.
You know, this gets me to thinking that the commercialization of Easter and the positioning of rabbits (garden vermin) as loveable little icons has likely been a subversive Fascist ploy.
If so, it has worked perfectly.. hundreds of millions of American children and adults are repulsed by the idea of harvesting this valuable, renewable resource and benefitting from that bit of freedom and individualism.
Same goes for tree rats.
Back in the 70's, I had neighbors on Long Island that raised rabbits. They would wap them against a metal utility sink and then skin them. Skinned rabbit reminded me of GI Joe dolls.
I killed and butchered my first rabbit in SERE school.. cooked it in an old helmet.. not so tasty when seasoned only with K-ration salt and a bullion cube, but a good lesson nonetheless.
I never could have imagined that the aggressors were actually running the show then.. or now.
Wild or domestic? Wild is gamey....
Heh, heh.. although snaring and cooking a rabbit was part of the course, it was 30 below (without the wind chill from the 20 mph winds.. honest-to-God) and two feet of snow on Mount Rangely so they provided cute little bunny rabbits with apologies because there was no way we were going to catch one in time.
Yikes! Though I would wager the bunnies were not of quality, if the army had them.
In the south its nice and warm :)
Well done HH. Looks like you have a nice ol ranch there.
Good health to you and the other Horses.
"Knowledge without action is insanity." How many of us on this site are guilty of this?
Not me! I walked the hall offices of some of our CONgressman the other day and left an unflushed turd in the toilet... pepper tacos if I recall.
There are pollution and productions limits to bringing the farm into suburbia.
Nonetheless, when I go see family in California, in its transition to "The Great Progressive Wasteland", I'm astonished how common chicken-rearing and local horticulture has become among the urban middle class.
Backyard chicken coups are becoming common in Orange County. You can't even tell they are there if there is no rooster making noise and you clean up the coup once a week.
I built the Chateau du Poulet more than 5 years ago and it is still working well.
That is awesome. I like that you design your livestock housing to move, must really help with the cleanup.
I would have started with chickens sometime ago if not for city/HOA regulations, but bunnies - going to have to start.
If you're looking for permission to raise food from the authorities, then you haven't been paying attention.
Food is a weapon. Don't let it be used against you.
Fuck you bernanke.
My city made me get rid of mine, they are total assholes who claim to be "Republicans." You can have property rights, as long as you do what we want you to do.
Were you being discrete? Asshole neighbors?
Fuck you bernanke.
After I pay my high taxes and gasoline bill here in the peoples republik it saves $$$ to grow my own food!!!
Not just California, either. I've got two neighbors on my block in Minneapolis raising chickens. After consulting my local ordinances, I've tilled up most of my front yard and I'm planting vegetables in garden boxes. Every day in the summer when I'm working out there, passers-by stop and ask for tips.
Yes, I can only grow so much, and I don't do it to become a vegetable tycoon or as a matter of surviival. I do it because it's fun, and the kind of grass that makes up a traditional lawn takes a lot of effort to keep nice in Minnesota, and after all that work, I still can't eat it.
"What a fun way for kids to learn multiplication."
All I know is one male bunny and one female bunny equals 6,937 baby bunnies. Sound like a leveraged fiat bunny system to me. :)
Gonna print me some bunnies!
If I had a daughter there would be NO MULTIPLICATION until after she moves out on her own... <grin>
That attitude will lead to division, grasshopper.
Excellent CD. Thanks for the chuckle!
Good on ya!
How much capital did you kick off with if you don't mind me asking?
The biggest sunk cost is a Skil 8-1/4 Worm Drive saw that runs around $250, but it is top of the line. With it, a tape measure, chalk line, carpenter's square, hammer, and cordless drill one can build about anything.
The cages, holes, feeders, and bottles from Bass are high quality and well worth the money.
I don't keep track of material costs, because it is depressing. Fuck you, Bernanke! Fuck you, Congress!
Why not free range and why not hares?
We have been able to train our dogs, and the neighbors' dogs, to not eat our free range chickens. For whatever reason, we have not ever taken the time to train them not to eat rabbits.
The local breeders all breed rabbit, not hare. Tradition!