I'm not sure if I entirely believe in "secret agendas" of ASPCA and other organizations that run animal shelters. I've been seeing a lot of posts by animal breeders here on Facebook that claim that if the ASPCA had its way, they would make it so that humans couldn't own animals. I think that is a pretty wild accusation that isn't based in reality. I do believe, however, that there are legislators that would like to change how rabbits are bred, and that if the rules were changed or made into laws, that it would fundamentally destroy ARBA in Washington State. How this would happed is by tampering with breeder's purse strings--how else. It's like anything else that Washington State taxes so they can add more money for earmarking and misappropriate as they always do. What Olympia legislators want to do is to change how rabbits are viewed by society and the government at large. They want to classify rabbits as "pets" and not be used for agricultural purposes, such as human consumption. The United States is the only country in the world that does not recognize rabbit as a form of meat production.
I've read articles about how chefs from abroad have come to the US looking for sources of rabbit to use in their menu. There is a growing desire in American society for rabbit to be included in the menus of fine dining establishments but there are no suppliers producing large enough quantities.
There are benefits all across the board for using rabbits as livestock. They virtually cost less money to raise than chickens or water foul and have a meat that is very similar. They are also the most lean meat that you can consume. They are easy to process and they reproduce with such regularity that their numbers can be produced more radically than chickens or other livestock. They can be processed much more quickly from birth than chickens. Rabbits are not just great pets for the family, but a food source that anyone can raise for virtually nothing out of pocket because rabbits eat very little, can eat hay or grass, produce larger litters of kits, and their pelts can be used for a variety of industries.
In times of economic struggle--which seems to be never-ending in our lives and there is no hope of a speedy recovery--small farmers find themselves unable to sell their produce or meats because of entities like the FDA. It all has to do with the value of the once mighty US Dollar and the taxes that our state and federal government want to generate by lying to you about the "evil" of whole milk verses pasteurized milk from a cow that has been genetically modified through the hybrid grain it's being fed while she's tied in a pen where she cannot move and spend most of her life in on a corporate farm. The same farms that are paid to overproduce or under-produce while the local farms are struggling to pay their mortgages and are forced into selling out to the larger corporations. This kind of behavior is being done to manipulate world markets through commodities.
Our country has been about wasteful spending of our money and our future generations' money (those that haven't been born to even earn it yet) and continues to spend money that doesn't even exist in reality. Politicians would have you believe that their jobs are so important by justifying them through the pork barrel spending that they have "sworn to stop doing."
So the point of this post is to redirect those who would point the finger in the wrong direction. Animal shelters are not the evil ne'erdowells here. It's your home-grown politicians who see your money in your wallet that you earned as their money to bath in and play around with. Funny thing is that the money in your wallet and in their coffers is worth ZERO. There isn't enough gold in the whole of Planet Earth to back it and the only thing that is are empty political promises that reek deception.
Our country is using our own people against one another to further its existence through corruption. Everyone should buy their produce, milk, meat, and eggs from local farms. Buy meat rabbits and eat food that is far more healthier than that you would by from your local corporate grocer. Why should we continue to support corruption in government by continuing to play into their trap. Keep your dollars and cents in your local businesses and farms. And when the time comes, don't vote rabbits to be "pets" but rather tell politicians that they are livestock. Keeping them as livestock prevents them from being animals that are found in shelters like cats and dogs. Rabbits can be pets for those who chose to keep them as pets. Let the rest of us use them for their intended purpose in nature.
In con-conclusion, if there is a way for people like you are me to make a living that is healthy, benefits ourselves and others, and cuts out big corporate farms that provide political campaign monies through lobbyists, you can guarantee that there will be laws set to prevent it or punish us through money or prison time.
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