Rabbit Advocacy Network

To act on behalf of rabbits who are exploited in all realms, including meat and fur farming, over-breeding, cruelty, and neglect. RAN has chosen rabbits as our target species because of the multiple venues in which they are exploited; however we are against the exploitation of all animal species.

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Our fellow animals on this planet are here with us, not for us.

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Think Rabbit Is The 'New Ethical Meat'? Think Again.

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For the love of animals. Pass it on.

Killing Allan will not help any of the "normal" livestock being killed each day in Denmark. Nor will it help the rabbits who are also killed in Denmark each day: for food, for fur, and for entertainment. In fact, both Allan's killing, and the radio station's response to the public anger, will only help to further obscure the fact that rabbits are already killed by the millions, for a variety of purposes, in Denmark and elsewhere, and will continue to be killed, regardless of Allan's death at Radio 24sy.

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For the love of animals. Pass it on.

As many people know (but most people probably do not), rabbits and "poultry" are not covered under the USDA Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, which at least nominally ensures that pigs, cows, sheep, and other animals raised for meat are slaughtered humanely (i.e. stunned before they are killed). The USDA does not consider either rabbits or birds to be worthy of coverage under this law — one of less than a handful in the United States that protect farmed animals at all. Rabbits — now the third most popular companion mammal in the United States — and chickens both lack this most basic protection from horrific pain and suffering.

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Speaking Up for Rabbits at Whole Foods

Imagine you’re shopping in your local Whole Foods when you discover dogs and cats in the meat case.

You voice your protest, and the company responds by issuing a statement that it is sensitive to the companion animal issue, but that some customers requested dog and cat meat.

Further, Whole Foods Market claims, it employs rigorous animal welfare standards, and the animals live in an enriched environment before they’re humanely slaughtered.

Now, as you look at your beloved dog or cat lying beside you, imagine how those of us who live with bunnies feel about Whole Foods selling our playful, loving and curious animals for dinner.

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Whole Foods Sees Protesters As A Major Threat

Here is the memo given to Whole Foods employees which shows how they feel about protesters.

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Rabbit Lovers Leaving Filled Shopping Carts at Whole Foods to Protest Rabbit Meat

We just heard that people have been filling grocerycarts with canned, non-perishable goods and leaving them in Whole Foods Markets with a note to stop selling rabbit meat.  This is legal and easy to do!

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What Whole Foods Market Says vs. What They Do

Rabbits raised by the numerous “growers” who provide rabbits to Iowa Rabbit keep their rabbits in the same wire-bottomed cages used in the rest of the rabbit meat industry. They have no hay, no hiding platforms, no branches or other items to gnaw, are watered through a dirty drip system, and are stuffed into cages with very little space for them to move, let alone play. Not a single comfort is provided to these energetic, loving, playful and curious animals who are then slaughtered at 8-10 weeks, in order for Whole Foods customers to have yet another meat to eat, and in order to benefit Whole Foods’ bottom line.

Whose values are reflected in the conditions that these rabbits have to live in?

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Where is the Customer Demand, Whole Foods?

Our question to Whole Foods management is: why is the company continuing to sell rabbit meat, when the demand for it is clearly not there? Why do these rabbits have to die?

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New Photos From Iowa Rabbit, Supplier to Whole Foods

Whole Foods Market has justified their introduction of a new animal--rabbit meat--to their meat cases by telling the public that they have been responding to customer demand (although the company's...

Rabbit Advocacy Network has gotten our hands on images taken from one of Iowa Rabbit’s suppliers in Iowa.

Do these look like humane conditions to you, Whole Foods Market?

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New in the Whole Foods Meat Case: Rabbits

Consumer demand for rabbit meat and the welfare of the rabbits may not be what Whole Foods has suggested.

USDA Inspections Offer Glimpse into the Supply Chain for Whole Foods' New Rabbit Meat Pilot Program

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Did Whole Foods' “Values Matter” Ad Campaign Inspire Consumers? - Crimson Hexagon

In fact, the main driver of negative sentiment was consumer anger at WFM for selling rabbit meat – at 46% of the total conversation. Overall, consumers were upset about the treatment of rabbits in WFM’s care, and about the animals being sold for meat.

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Whole Foods uses lyrics from a childrens' Easter song to sell dead baby bunnies.  Because Values Matter?

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Wholefoods please do not sell rabbit meat in your stores!

Whole Foods is now taking steps to popularize consumption of dead rabbits by selling their meat in a pilot program. If it’s a success, this will open the door to so many more slaughtered bunnies.

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Whole Foods Executives Assault Activists

This will not be the last time Patrick Bradley and Whole Foods Market will hear from Southern Californian activists: we will not be coerced into silence. We will continue coming back even stronger than before until Whole Foods Market ceases to sell rabbit meat in their stores.