Claim: A small animal centre stopped new adoptions because people were buying them for food.
Fact-check: An adoption centre did pause adoptions of rabbits for fear they'd be used as food, but there's no evidence it's widespread - Full Fact
Verdict: the west berkshire small animal centre was concerned that people might use it's rabbits for food and so paused adoptions. the rspca said it hasn't received any reports of these animals being killed for food.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-03-24T00:00:00