Whole Foods selling rabbits as food

[Catherine]

I agree. It is not worse that they are selling rabbits as food. I just don't want to see them starting yet another species down the road to factory farming. Right now the market is specialized so there are few breeders and not a lot of big profits. Once a demand is created we could see rabbits treated like cage hens and veal calves.

I want to see us move away from that. It is wrong to keep any animals under those conditions. I suppose the difference in people's minds is the name. When you eat rabbit you think rabbit and get a picture in your mind of a bunny.
When you eat pork you think plastic packaging and grocery stores.
How did we ever become so desensitized to animal suffering. Was it a deliberate choice or did it just happen.
I can understand that the factory farms are a result of a desire for bigger profits. But when did people stop caring?