Rabbit on a plate,

As you well know by now, 2011 is according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar the Year of the Rabbit.

Knowing that the Chinese practically eat anything that moves, crawls.......it doesn't come as a surprise that our furry friends are not exactly exempted from being devoured, just because it is the Year of the Rabbit.

And before anyone accuses me of being biased, ...I hold up my arms high in the air....for a fact, my Belgian compatriots do enjoy a nice plate of bunny meat too....tried it decades ago, and I wasn't that amused back then.

So, I shouldn't have been surprised then, when I saw these caged creatures, ready to be slaughtered on the spot, and cooked in front of anyone who savoured a delicious bunny hindleg, or why not some snake, duck, toads.....

I do realize that what we might consider "kosher", other people might find it disgusting, and vice versa....

But I do really wish that our furry friends are exempted from winding up in the cooking pots..........because after all, this is their year.....

Saving them from being cooked? Wishful thinking.........

I'd better advise the rabbits to multiply themselves to keep up their numbers, I'm quite certain they have more chances to survive as a species this way.