It IS stupid People don't think of the care and cleanup that these little bunnies need. They just want a cute photo-op for their kids. Isn't that why someone dresses up as the Easter Bunny and sits at the mall for photos? Sad. It makes me grit my teeth to think of people being so callus. Granted, I do not really like rabbits much. Living on a farm and having to shuffle through piles on piles of their poop pellets in the hay barn.. you get to dislike them fast in my poop-compressed shoes.
Yes, Easter had Pagan roots. There are enough listings on Google that go into that, without me re-inventing the wheel. I could go into the whole thing whereby the Pagan's male aspect of the Horned God was turned from his original purpose as a virile male life force, to a horned evil demon, but I am sure that no one wants religious debate in the Bunny Thread!