The owners of pet rabbits are used to feeding their animals lettuce, carrots and other salad vegetables - but now vets have warned that the diet could be seriously harmful. Lettuce contains a chemical ...

The Gates Foundation funds research on engineering new genetically modified-varieties of staple crops – including rice, sweet potatoes, and bananas – to contain higher amounts of vitamins and ...

Experts and MPs claim pet rabbits are being treated as 'second-class animals' and need better legal protection. The all-party parliamentary group for animal welfare says Britain's one million domestic ...

Rabbits, unlike humans, don’t have that much of a varied diet, so it’s pretty hard to get wrong, right? Well, no, actually. Rabbits need fresh water, hay, selected fresh vegetables and dry food – but ...

GIVING rabbits lettuce to eat is like feeding them drugs, pet experts have warned. Some varieties, especially iceberg, contain lactucarium, a chemical known as “rabbit opium”, which gets them high.