Rabbit Tales
Though rabbits inform our consciousness and culture in so many ways, they are one of the most exploited domesticated animals, making it difficult to understand how a dismembered rabbit foot could possibly represent “good luck.”
Food for Thought with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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Show Notes
Though rabbits inform our consciousness and culture in so many ways, they are one of the most exploited domesticated animals: raised and killed for human consumption, hunted for "sport," used for experiments in vivisection labs, farmed and killed for their fur, sold in pet stores, and so much more. Given all this, it’s a wonder how a dismembered rabbit foot could possibly represent “good luck.” Join me as I frame our exploitation of and relationship to rabbits within pop culture and literature.
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