where the land burns and the rabbits run

[Kurt]

Muck City Florida

So ever since the sugar companies started to amp up production in the 1940s, annexing more and more land and employing more and more migrant workers from Jamaica and Mexico, boys in Muck City have been running into the fields. "We run those fields for food, for money," he says. "We're not savages. We do it to survive."

 

[audie]

that's sad.

 

[Allifunn]

wow....seems strange to have to do such a thing here in "the richest country in the world" :shock:
At first I thought they were trying to save the rabbits from dying in the fire....:roll: yeah...right....

Kinda gives new meaning to "from the fire into the frying pan"

 

[Teresa]

amazing rabbit chasers. we tend to forget or never know about the subcultures of field workers tucked here and there, even in Florida. interesting story.

 

[Kurt]

Some say Muck City is 3rd world. I've only driven through, but I didn't feel any urge to stop.

 

[Mermaid]

It looks like Ocean Lover's pancake bunnies are the only ones who are loved and cherished! Today's paper had an article about this truckload of 5,000 bunnies (the reporter did not use the term "rabbit" anywhere in the headline ;-) ) near Budapest, Hungary. They were caught in a traffic accident and about 500 were killed outright. It took hours to capture the remaining bunnies--all 4000+ of them, can you imagine??--BUT 100 escaped to freedom in the fields surrounding the countryside. Lucky them, because the remainder completed their journey to the original destination: the slaughterhouse.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Some say Muck City is 3rd world. I've only driven through, but I didn't feel any urge to stop.

Yeah, but do they have cockfighting? You know you are in the third world if cockfighting is approved by the government. Hey wait a minute...