Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeComedy star Ricky Gervais has slammed plans to create intensive rabbit farms that could see 30,000 bunnies slaughtered every year. Meat and fur producer T&S Rabbits already operates four sites in the UK, selling meat and live rabbits to wholesalers. Fur farming has been banned here since 2003. They would house staff on proposed rabbit farms, with 250 does bred at each site. Ricky, 59, is horrified, adding: “Britain banned fur farming two decades ago because it’s cruel, so allowing these would bring back fur farming by the back door.

Source: Daily Mirror March 20, 2021 18:44 UTC