The shortage of meat has always been a serious problem that the Senate cannot avoid, although it is said that there are already a considerable number of pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock in the breeding industry of the Senate, as well as a large number of chickens, ducks and geese, but if it is really spread out for the naturalized people and senators of the Oriental Port to eat, it is estimated that it will be eaten up in about a month. Nowadays, although you can see meat on the table in the public canteens of various departments, you have to pay for the meat separately when you are cooking, because the meat is so difficult to get your hands on, and if the meal ticket is open, you can ensure that the meat and vegetables can be liquidated directly in a few minutes.

Although fish has always been open to the Senate's food supply, the difference between fish and meat is considerable, meat is far more and more effective as a protein supplement than fish, and animal fats are always much more popular than vegetable oils for stir-frying. Even at this moment, the Committee of Agriculture has begun to provide various breeding assistance to the local villages, and each village resident can apply to the Committee of Agriculture for five chickens, ducks, and geese as breeding birds on a household basis, and those who can provide 100 eggs within a year will be regarded as repaying the loan for breeding poultry, and if the output of 300 eggs is completed within one year, then they can apply to the Committee of Agriculture for two pigs or two sheep or one sheep as breeding stock from the next year. The repayment method of breeding stock is more flexible, as long as five piglets or five lambs or a calf can be provided to the Senate Committee of Agriculture in the current year, the breeding stock loan can also be completed, in addition to milk and goat's milk can also be used to repay. Nowadays, many breeding birds and breeding animals in the farms of the Council of Agriculture have been "loaned" out, and many villages even want to pay money to buy breeding stock and breeding poultry from the Committee of Agriculture, because the breeding stock and breeding birds provided by the Senate are several streets behind the local indigenous livestock in terms of size, meat growth speed and egg and milk production, but because the Committee of Agriculture itself is now lacking in breeding poultry and breeding stock, so it is not open for the time being.

The shortage of meat in the Oriental Port may continue for a long time before these meat, eggs and milk providers can provide output on a large scale, so after discussion and experimentation by the elders of the Committee of Agriculture, it was decided to reach out to nature, and the rabbit came into the sight of the Committee of Agriculture. It is said that before the senators of the Senate crossed over, they had seen many times from various crossings about using rabbits to solve the problem of meat shortage, but this kind of thing really came to their own side, and they still had to think about it.

Compared to other animals that can be farmed, rabbits are not the kind that are easy to control. The vast majority of the patriarchs still remember the most evil image of Australia in the old world - the rabbit, there were no rabbits in Australia, and the rabbits that can be seen in Australia now are definitely not native, they are standard imports, and the rabbits were brought to Australia by the colonists in the late eighteenth century as "raw materials" for food to breed, and they were almost not left outside, even at that time there was no wild population in the wild in Australia. The rabbit became a nightmare in the mid-19th century, when an English rancher named Thomas Austin placed twenty-four rabbits and five hares he had brought from Europe into his own Australian possession. Of course, this man is naturally not the inexplicable release that he learned from the Chinese in later generations, he is just preparing to prepare his prey for hunting here with his friends in the second year.

But here's the problem, the ecological balance in Australia has been seriously skewed, there are no rabbit-feeding animals such as eagles, wolves and foxes, and rabbits who lack natural predators live in Australia, where the climate is pleasant and full of delicious grass, it is almost like falling into paradise. What makes them even more comfortable is that there are no predators, there are no enemies around them that can threaten them, and the soil is soft enough to make holes and nests, so they live happily in Australia - the only thing to do is to survive. These unrestrained rabbits spread from the farm's land in Austin to the surrounding areas, and by 1907 the rabbits had conquered all of Australia, and by 1926 the number of rabbits in Australia had grown to 10 billion.

The damage caused by the expansion of the rabbit population is immeasurable, and in the beautiful Australian savannah, where the wind blows grass and cattle and sheep are low, the rabbits greedily eat all kinds of grass, and ten rabbits can eat the equivalent of the grass eaten by one sheep. At the same time, they will also gnaw on a variety of shrubs and bark with impunity. During the dry season, they even climb onto the branches to eat the tender leaves, burrowing and gnawing on the roots, turning patches of bushes and woods into wilts. It is estimated that in Australia's drier regions, just four rabbits per hectare of land can deprive the vegetation of the land's ability to regenerate. One of the most direct consequences of this is that the soil and water conservation capacity in most parts of the Australian continent has declined sharply, soil erosion and soil degradation are becoming more and more serious, and the ecological environment has been seriously damaged. The extinction of species is even more deplorable. Wallabies and bandicoots, which are native to the area, are cornered by rabbits. Powerful rabbits act as unstoppable aggressors, not only taking over the burrows of these native animals, but also robbing them of their food, leaving the milder marsupials starving. Decades later, Australia's oldest and smallest kangaroo, the rat kangaroo, was finally wiped out. According to statistics, there are dozens of extinct or near-extinct species of protozoa in Australia, mainly due to rabbits. Australia's agriculture and livestock sector have also inevitably suffered huge losses. When looking at the consumption of pasture, the amount of grass eaten by 10 billion rabbits is equivalent to the grazing amount of 1 billion sheep. The economic damage to Australia, known as the "country on the back of a sheep", is incalculable. In addition, because rabbits are naturally good at burrowing, they dig holes in loose pastures and under farms to a depth of 1.5 meters, not only cattle and sheep often fall into the holes, but more seriously, a large number of burrows under the farmland can make it impossible for agricultural machinery to carry out operations. Even as early as 1881, some farms in Australia were forced to abandon because of this, and the farmers were saddened.

In order to curb the spread and reproduction of rabbits, Australians can be said to have exhausted all means, and the means are all the best, which is a world wonder. From the most traditional hunting, netting, and plugging holes, to the more "advanced" release of poison gas and poisoning carrots, Australians have tried it all. In order to eradicate rabbits, Australians even made use of another alien creature, the rabbit's natural predator, the fox. In the beginning, this approach worked, but Australians soon discovered that foxes may prefer to eat locally produced marsupials, which are relatively slow. In order not to make these precious species extinct, Australians can't see the 272nd chapter of the Dawn of the Crossing Rabbit has enabled the anti-theft mode, and only half of the chapter and the previous chapter are not connected. Please search for the hidden part in the back: (ruthless + water) After entering, search for "The Dawn of the Crossing" to watch