Scandalous conditions in European rabbit farms

FOUR PAWS exclusively offers unbelievable and current footage uncovering the reality of today’s rabbit farms in six European countries: Millions of rabbits are suffering in tiny cages with their soft paws on bare cold metal.

They are living their entire life directly above huge masses of their own excrements creating a painful atmosphere of acidic ammonia gases. The footage shows rabbits with swollen bleeding eyes, covered with pus - some rabbits are already blind. Due to the tight cages the rabbits develop abnormal behaviour like cannibalism or they keep biting the cage.

See the video.



Attention: Tormented rabbits on your plate!

Each year more than 1 million tonnes of rabbit meat are eaten all over the world. This means that 900 millions rabbits are slaughtered, year by year. Half of them are bred and eaten in Europe.

FOUR PAWS checked hundreds of supermarkets in six European countries. The result: FOUR PAWS can prove that the usual “meat rabbit” comes from battery cages.

Help the rabbits not to be abused in cages anymore and help us to force the supermarkets to stop selling rabbit meat!

 “What you can do”


Call for a ban of caging of rabbits

The animals are kept in huge battery cages similar to the ones for laying hens. While battery cages for hens are already illegal in some European countries, so far cages for rabbits are not even questioned.

FOUR PAWS is starting an international campaign to end the suffering of rabbits. This is an appeal to the public, the industry and politicians to act now and end the suffering in rabbit farms in Europe and worldwide.

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