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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‘cause they’re not cute and cuddly. Ha!
My mom made rabbit stew when I was a kid. As intelligent as dogs or cats? Don’t think so. Individual personalities? Maybe.
These animal rights people never grew up. They are children. Perpetual children.
There are some of us here who don't eat steaming hot plates of braised baby kittens?
It does take fortitude to take on a flock of crows.
Last summer we watched a chicken hawk fend off about 50 ravens at once. Ravens look like very large crows. They were at several hundred feet with the ravens diving and swooping past him, landing on his back, doing all sorts of stuff.
They eventually flew out of sight, but he had an awful fight on his hands.
I had a pet rabbit, he was cool and had a good personality. He died a natural death and was buried. I have eaten many of his rabbit brethren. Little is better than a garden raider of the squirrel or rabbit variety.
My DAD got some rabbits to raise for food...I got friendly with them and decided not to eat my friends. So the moral is don’t let the children feed the rabbits...
On the farm, out in the wilderness, with bear, deer, rabbit, and groundhog.....no one goes hungry. Raise a few veggies, can, and kill the game....my grandmother raised nine children with a gun, a knife, and a garden. She made the best bisquits and gravy.
Huh.
So preparation of rabbit IS very different than other animals.
Who knew?
Did you ever say “There’s a hare in my food!”?
Grandpa had rabbits. I finally figured out why he smiled when I asked to feed them.
So what’s the beef? If it hadn’t been for our white bunnies during WWII we would have starved. Good meat and plentiful and really good, raised in the back yard.
You might be pleasantly surprised to learn that boneless leg of lamb is now selling at my local Costco and Sam’s for about $5.50/lb. That’s just about the same as chuck roast today.
Sounds familiar. One of my dad’s money-making schemes was to raise rabbits for sale and home consumption. At one time, we had around 200 of the stupid things. The only animals dumber were chickens.
My brother and I had responsibility for feeding, watering, and cleaning up after the rabbits. Which was hell in the winter.
For all that, I got a buck or two whenever we sold a batch of meat or pelts. I don’t think it was worth it. But let’s just say that participation wasn’t voluntary.
most people don’t like the idea of their pet being served up as food. or seeing it in the supermaket.
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A BUNCH of folks don’t like the fact we eat their very sacred cattle......
Of course there are! I personally prefer mine deep fried on a stick. I call ‘em kitty kabobs.
It’s duck season. LOL.
Cue the Daffy Duck - Bugs Bunny pictures.
No,it’s duck season!
I see the occasional hare in the morning on my way out to get coffee. I am amazed at how tiny they are. I don’t know if they’d be worth the trouble of skinning.
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