Sterilizing rabbits before being sold to someone is an improvement over selling them to breed until the owner is overwhelmed and kills them all, as the SPCA used to.
Although ultimately this kind of education gives kids the message that imprisoning animals for our sakes, for our amusement or some other purpose is okay. But most of them will spend their lonely lives in a tiny hutch, almost forgotten at the bottom of the yard. Some will be taken out occasionally to hop around on real grass, and then will be put back in the hutch when that pales, but many will not even get that respite from the cruelty of their lives. Rabbits make poor pets, but their needs are easily forgotten as they are truly silent.