A Danish radio station has defended itself after a baby rabbit was killed live on air.
Radio24syv said it used a bicycle pump to kill the rabbit because it wanted to highlight cruelty in the farming industry.
The broadcaster said radio host Asger Juhl, who ate it, struck Allan with repeated blows to the head to highlight ‘hypocrisy’ in Danes’ attitudes towards animal welfare.
‘We buy and eat animals that have had an awful life. And animals that have been killed under the same controlled conditions as the rabbit in the studio,’ the station wrote in a statement.
Reality TV show star and animal rights activist Linse Kessler tried to grab the animal and chased Juhl around the studio several times before being asked to leave.
‘They wanted to see if they could kill him during the last show or if they had gotten too attached to him,’ she said in a video clip on her Facebook page.
Kessler said she thought she was capable of wresting the animal from Juhl but feared it would die a more painful death if she grabbed it.
‘I hit it hard over the neck twice so that the cervical vertebrae fractured,’ Juhl told broadcaster TV 2.
‘I was instructed by a zookeeper from Aalborg Zoo who hits several baby rabbits every week (to feed) the snakes,’ he added.
Juhl said he had brought the dead rabbit with him home – where he had skinned and cut it up with his children, aged six and eight – and that he later would have rabbit stew for dinner with fellow morning host Kristoffer Eriksen.
Culled From Metro
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