1. Missing Meat
Local Meat Collective Vandalized
The Portland Meat Collective has an old world mindset for a modern American
society embracing do-it- yourself roots. Camas Davis, a previous managing and food
editor for Portland Monthly, began PMC on the heels of losing her job. After realizing
how much time she’d spent just reviewing or talking about food in front of the
computer, she decided to take a jaunt in the opposite direction and learn to butcher.
In the first year, PMC had over 300 students enroll in 30 different classes on curing,
slaughtering, sausage making, cooking and animal husbandry.
Davis had just appeared on a popular podcast: destinationdiy.com as a main
feature story on the pride and gratification that comes from learning to do
something independently in the food market. The last segment was on rabbits.
Specifically on how to humanely raise and kill them for consumption. A few months
after the podcast aired, 18 rabbits from PMC were stolen, including a uniquely
tattooed bunny by the name of Roger who was used as a breeder.
Levi Cole, a teacher with PMC, contacted the Portland, Oregon based organization
Rabbit Advocates to bring a mother rabbit in to nurse the remaining 10 bunnies in
Cole’s care. That’s when he discovered the advocacy group had just received an
anonymous delivery of rabbits.
Seven-teen of the rabbits have been returned. But there is an un-identified
volunteer with the advocacy group who claims she’s not ready to return Roger the
rabbit and has obtained her own lawyer. Late Friday the attorney for PMC, Lisa
Ludwig, brought public attention to Roger’s distinctive tattoo, spelling out his name

2. to mark him as a breeding rabbit in hopes that this will solve the remaining
identification issues.
The mystery volunteer is still negotiating. She has offered to keep Roger for $200
instead of surrendering him, if Cole will not be able to guarantee the rabbit’s safety
and continued post as a stud.
Portland Police ask any one for information to contact Detective David Miller at
503-823-4783