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Whole Foods Market has begun selling rabbit meat in select stores nationwide, and the move has rabbit advocates hopping mad.
Mad enough, they say, that they’ll be protesting at Whole Foods stores this weekend, handing out leaflets reminding consumers that rabbits are “popular furry companion[s]” often kept as pets.
On a webpage for The House Rabbit Society, the nonprofit rabbit advocacy group calls on attendees nationwide to “politely” inform shoppers of rabbits’ status as pets, with the ultimate goal of persuading customers to fill out comment cards or speak to store managers. The campaign was organized by several rabbit advocacy groups.
At this time, Whole Foods Market is only selling rabbit meat in select stores in Northern California, the mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, north Atlantic, Northeast, South and Pacific Northwest as part of a pilot program.
In an email to The Huffington Post, Whole Foods spokesman Mike Silverman acknowledged the company is “sensitive to the companion animal issue.” He emphasized the grocer decided to carry rabbit only as a result of repeated customer requests.
“A number of shoppers have been asking Whole Foods Market to carry rabbit for years but conventional raising practices do not meet our rigorous animal welfare standards,” Silverman explained. “To meet our customers’ requests for rabbit we needed our own set of animal welfare standards. These animal welfare standards are a direct result of a rigorous four-year process to address the welfare issues in rabbit production.”
A late-May media release from the company details some of those standards — such as the requirement rabbits have “continuous access to drinking water, feed, roughage, gnawing blocks” — which, Whole Foods says, were built to “ensure the overall health and well-being of the animals.”
House Rabbit Society has dismissed the document as “just greenwashing PR.”
Y&H reported last November that bartenders Patrick Owens, Owen Thomson, and Ashley May were teaming up to open a bar called Seven Faces Barroom at 251 Florida Ave. NW. It looks like that is no longer happening—at least not anytime soon. “We did squash the project several months ago. Each of us had things come up in our lives that lead […]
Because why not?, soon you’ll be able to get a weekly subscription of cheese. Grilled cheese joint GCDC is launching a “cheese share” (or cheese CSA) next month for people who want to try out new types of fromage. A $50 membership buys you five weeks of farmstead cheese with pickups every Wednesday from 5 […]
GREEeNSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The former live-in caretaker of a Pittsburgh-area mansion has died, ending criminal charges that he drank more than $102,000 worth of old whiskey that he was supposed to be guarding.
A district judge last year ordered 63-year-old John Saunders, of Irwin, to stand trial after hearing testimony from the owner of the South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast.
But the Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/1sV3jY0 ) reports Saunders died July 21, ending the case.
The mansion’s owner, Patricia Hill, told police she had found nine 12-bottle cases of whiskey hidden in the century-old mansion built by industrialist J.P. Brennan after she bought it in 2011.
According to court records, Hill hired Saunders that March to care for the property, which would have included safeguarding the whiskey. But when Hill went to have the pre-Prohibition Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey appraised in March 2012 she discovered 52 empty bottles, on which police said they later found DNA from Saunders’ saliva.
The whiskey was produced in 1912 and bottled in 1917 by the West Overton Distilling Co. and was appraised at more than $2,000 a bottle.
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Information from: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, http://pghtrib.com
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