Urban farm cancels rabbit butchering event

Urban farm cancels rabbit butchering event

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Organizers have called off a rabbit butchering event at an urban farm in Pittsburgh after animal welfare activists flooded them with complaints.

The rabbit harvest planned for Friday at Knotweed Urban Farm has been canceled after a rabbit advocacy group and a local animal welfare group promised a protest in addition to hundreds of critical messages on Facebook.

Critics complained that organizers billed it as a family event.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the urban farmer who planned the event confirmed it’s been canceled. The farmer doesn’t work at Knotweed but the farm was to host the event.

Small farmers say the idea behind such butchering demonstrations is to show attendees where the meat they buy in a supermarket comes from.