Representatives Christopher Shays and Peter DeFazio have introduced legislation (HR 5557, the Farm Animal Stewardship Protection Act) that would begin protecting farmed animals (which includes rabbits, of course) against some of the worst factory farm abuses. Here is the PETA action alert link:

http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/ActionAlerts-item.asp?
id=1965&int=weekly_enews

Here is the link to current co-sponsors of the bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR05557:@@@P

Please consider writing a letter to your representative to co-sponsor this bill, if he/she is not already. Below is a sample letter. If they are a co-sponsor, a letter to thank them for doing so is nice. You may use this sample letter to help you get started.

Each year more than 8 million rabbits are raised and slaughtered for their meat by approximately 200,000 producers across the country. Known primarily as a cottage industry, American rabbit-meat production is largely unregulated by the federal authorities and removed from the public eye.
You can read more here, and you can see the deplorable conditions these poor rabbits are forced to live in here.

Please contact LL Bean about the fact that they are selling rabbit fur-lined men's hats and gloves. Remind them that these rabbits suffer horribly in factory farms and are killed brutally. Tell them you will no longer shop at LL Bean as long as they are selling real fur and that equally warm gloves and hats can be sold that are cruelty-free. Ask them to reconsider the sale of items rooted in suffering. And to join progressive fur-free retailers such as Gap, Banana Republic, American Eagle, Aeropostale, H&M, Forever 21, J. Crew, LandsEnd and others. They also need to know that fur bearing animals are not covered under the Humane Slaughter Act. Ranch-raised animals are electrocuted through their genitals, poisoned with pesticides, or asphyxiated with carbon monoxide from unfiltered engine exhaust. Those who don't die swiftly are skinned alive.
Contact info:
800-341-4341 Customer Service
800-221-4221 Order line
llbean@llbean.com
http://www.llbean.com/customerService/
contactUs/contactUsEmail.html?feat=gn

Noah's Wish is a unique animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to rescuing and sheltering animals in disasters throughout the United States and Canada. Their efforts in Slidell after Hurricane Katrina have helped save countless animals, so please consider helping them with a donation.
http://www.noahswish.org/

The HSUS Urges Congress to Pass "PETS" Act to Keep People and Animals Together During Disasters
The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act, H.R. 3858, requires state and local emergency management agencies that receive federal funding to make plans for people with pets or the disabled who rely on service animals to safely evacuate along with their animals in the event of a disaster.
Read more here and here
Sign the petition here

Easter is a very sad time of year for bunnies and bunny lovers. Although bunnies are celebrated as part of Easter, the sad reality is that most people don't know what they're getting into when they give or get a pet rabbit on a whim, and shortly after the novelty wears off and they are left caring for an animal they didn't really want.
Please join us in urging members of the clergy to speak to their congregations on behalf of all the unwanted pets that arise from the Easter celebration, so that hopefully we can prevent the inevitable abandonment (or worse) that occurs shortly after Easter every year.
For more information, please see this page
Here is a sample letter that you can use to form your own letter, or you can simply copy it and send it to any/all clergy members you know.

The USDA has classified rabbits as poultry to deny them protection from humane slaughter. You can read the Humane Farming Association's article here, or if you want to spare yourself the details and simply contact the appropriate person, you can find that information here.

Natural Pet Market sells raw rabbit meat and sells rabbit ears as chew toys for dogs. For information on telling this company to stop this practice, click here:
http://www.saveabunny.com/activism2.php?nmid=164

Medical experts agree that moderate exercise is good for pregnant women and their babies. This conclusion is based on both physician observation and more than 20 years of clinical studies. O’Hagan of Midwestern University in Chicago, however, is using $200,000 in government funds to investigate questions long settled by clinical research. In this case, O’Hagan wants to know how exercise affects the flow of blood to the uterus of pregnant women - but she isn’t examining pregnant women. Instead, O’Hagan is impregnating 60 rabbits, implanting probes and catheters into them, and forcing them to run on a motorized treadmill. At the end of her experiment, O’Hagan kills the rabbits, cuts them open, and examines their fetuses.
Read more.
What you can do to help

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (H.R.4239) with companion bill (S1926), was drafted to shield animal-use corporations from legal protest.
If H.R. 4239 is enacted, non-violent objection and civil disobedience, boycotts, and even influential media campaigns would become terrorist activities if linked to "loss of profits" for agribusiness, research laboratories, fur farms, circuses, and other "animal enterprises."
Under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, citizens who exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech, free assembly and free expression are labeled terrorists and face significant time behind bars.
Please go to http://www.stopaeta.org/ to write your elected representatives declaring your opposition to HR 4239.