Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

Amusing. From Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies:

Dutch farmers have devised a hot and spicy way to stop rabbits and rodents from munching their lettuce, carrots and wheat. Spraying fields with the American sauce Tabasco sends the rabbits ‘three feet in the air’ with shock and running for cover, said a spokesman for a local agriculture cooperative.

And, because it’s the Netherlands:

The farmers will now try to make Tabasco an officially recognized pesticide for subsidized use on a larger scale. At least five small supermarket-sized bottles of the spicy sauce are needed for spraying 1 hectare (2.5 acres) of crops.

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