Tell Me About The Rabbits, Germany

“Then the farmer hit the rabbit with the hammer. One child fainted, others burst into tears. Next, he slit the animal’s throat with a knife, gutted the body, skinned it and hung it up to drain. The next day, the rabbit was grilled in the school yard and eaten — in Stone Age style, naturally, on a hot stone. Some mothers and fathers who had attended the feast had also tried it, the farmer recalled.”
 — A farmer in the North German town of Ratekau caused a stir with a demonstration he gave during “Stone Age Week,” part of a local school’s 5th-grade curriculum. Thirty students signed a petition to save the rabbit in the days leading up to the killing, to no avail. “We rejected this form of protest,” said a teacher at the school to the newspaper, Lübecker Nachrichten. “One can’t collect signatures against a math test either.” In similar news, also from Germany, plans are moving ahead to stuff and display the carcass of the beloved polar bear Knut, who drowned at the Berlin Zoo on March 19th — despite widespread outcry and petitioning against the idea. “When we have decided something, we are not going to let ourselves be swayed either by thousands of people, tens of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands,” said the zoo’s bear keeper, Heiner Kloes. Germany is totally the best.