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Originally Posted by Lord Carnifex
And this doesn't just apply to hunters, herders, and other meat eaters. Those who grow their own vegetables and cereal grains can and often do start to see rabbits, deer, songbirds and other adorably cute critters as pests to be eliminated as efficiently as possible lest they destroy a crop.
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Definitely.
I visited a Buddhist monastery in England once, surrounded by farmland. They told me that they had real trouble with the neighbours early on because they refused to shoot or set up traps to kill the rabbits on their land and the rabbits were finding a safe haven at the monastery grounds to multiply and spread to the neighbouring lands. The neighbours simply had no appreciation for any reluctance to do pest control on rabbits (nevermind the fact that the monks don't even do insect control). It was a given that rabbits are to be exterminated.
Situation did improve once the monks began putting up fences around their grounds in order to keep the rabbits
in, however.