on the way to work one place has a wooden sign out front that simply says Weiß over a picture of a white rabbit... those who know get their rabbits there
Posted on 08/24/2014 11:30:10 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Whole Foods Market has been selling rabbit meat for a few months in Northern California and Washington, D.C., but it hasn’t been an easy process. Nor has it been without controversy, according to a recent Fox News report.
When it first offered rabbit meat, the grocery store chain issued a press release carefully explaining why it took four years to set up an acceptable production process as well as its own set of standards:
Take into account that rabbits are social creatures.
Require living conditions with continuous access to water, food, and other necessary items.
Treat injured animals.
Careful breeding procedures informed by their prolific breeding habits.
Despite these precautions, animal rights activists are very upset and the group Rabbit.Org has a site dedicated to equipping those who want to protest at the stores.
If everyone feels like this, Whole Foods will likely pull the product, right?
Not too many generations ago, everyone alive had a familiarity with the entire process of providing meat for consumption – from birth to table – but nowadays it’s hidden and unseen by the vast majority of people. That may make it easier for protestors and animal-rights activists to gain a following, but it doesn’t mean that it makes a lot of sense.
The question is obvious: why should rabbits – a readily available, inexpensive to duplicate, and legitimate source of protein – be any different than any other meat product?
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It’s wabbit season.
good lean protein…..and, as they say….”tastes like chicken” (to some degree)
What about the chickens? How come PETA isn’t doing anything to save the chickens ?
1) Do they also sell Lucky Rabbit foot keychains?
2) If God did not want us to eat rabbits, He would not have made them out if rabbit meat...
It’s always been my impression that vegans act a lot like rabbits.
They may see this as cannibalism.
Jeez, I grew up eating (wild) rabbit.
While stationed in Fulda, Germany in the 1970s, we became acquainted with a middle class German family who kept rabbits as a food suppliment. They fed them grass clippings and commercial food during the summer. Winter time was not a problem as the rabbits did not eat then. They tasted good.
“What about the chickens? How come PETA isn’t doing anything to save the chickens ?”
Chickens don’t wriggle their noses in a cute manner, nor are they as soft and cuddly.
I did. But then we also had meat rabbits as well. My pet was off limits but I cheerfully ate rabbit stew, roast rabbit, bunny sausages and so forth because I knew the difference between a pet(Bugs) and food source (every other rabbit on the planet that was not a pet).
If you want to see the same thing on this board suggest eating dogs, cats or horses.
You will hear shrieks of horror because these animals are in the "pet" category in people's mind. There is no reason for them to be exclusively in that category of course but suggest changing this sends most Americans into a conniption fit.
I’d like to try some rabbit, but I’ll bet it’s expensive. Once in a great while, I will treat myself to some Lamb meat. I will take the lamb home, throw a little apple vinegar on, later basil and oregano, then slowly roast the hell out of it. I’ll have some fine eating for a day or so, but it’s not cheap if you want to buy more than 1/3rd of an adult serving.
on the way to work one place has a wooden sign out front that simply says Weiß over a picture of a white rabbit... those who know get their rabbits there
Keeping them fed and watered was real pain, especially in winter, as I'd have to go out before school, remove the ice from their water dishes, and load some hay and rabbit pellets into their feeders. When I got home I had to repeat all that, as well as scrape out the rabbit droppings from the hutches. However, we never went without meat.
Now and then a little brown rabbit shows up in our back yard. The other day he was out there repeatedly charging some crows that were annoying him.
I’m pretty sure that rabbit has more testicular fortitude than the average bleating leftwinger.
Wait till after the first real hard freeze, pop one in the head, gut him, check the liver for spots, if none enjoy as they are very tasty. Especially when they are in crops.
how would people feel if they were offering dog and cat meat there?
most people don’t like the idea of their pet being served up as food. or seeing it in the supermaket.
fact is rabbits are the #3 domestic pet in the country, they are the #3 most abandoned to shelters, behind cats and dogs. their intelligence levels are in the range of cats and dogs and they have unique personalities (animalities if you don’t like that). it just amazes me that loving dog and cat owners can’t extend their own empathy towards rabbit owners that have to deal with their animal being in categories theirs aren’t - food, pests, hunting targets. if their animals were in those categories they’d be crying a blue streak and demanding change.
what really sucks is usda classifies rabbits as chickens so as to get around the humane slaughter act requirements.
crows can be real mean to small animals. they will gang up on one and poke it, surround it, attack it. crows’are’super’intelligent and nasty and it made me very much dislike them in general.
It’s the cute factor. You aren’t allowed to eat cute animals. Same reason you have dolphin-safe tuna, but not tuna-safe dolphin. Same reason you can’t sit down to steaming hot plate of braised baby kittens, but you can eat pig butt all day long. Bunnies are cute.
One guy over there was going on and on and on about treatment to animals. He really cares more than the rest of us you know.
After reading one post where he stated we don’t have to cause animals to be raped, so we can have a food source, I responded.
I reminded him that he had been trying to convince us he cared more about animal mistreatment than the rest of us.
I then reminded him the rabbits were being treated very humanely, since Whole Foods set up a fairly extensive way to make sure the rabbits were well treated.
I also reminded him that he had stated other animals are not treated humanely. Then I reminded him that people eating rabbits would eat less of other meats.
I then told him he had pretty much made himself out to be a fraud.
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