My cousins (here in Ireland) would often go lamping, and bring some home to my mam who made the BEST rabbit stew. :-)
I wish Elmer Fudd could brutally kill Bugs the Inferior Bunny. I do not object to eating rabbits by the way. My main reason of hatred towards rabbits is the fact that they bite, scratch, reproduce like crazy, and wreck the eco-system. When I was a kid, I held a rabbit and it bit me when I was feeding it. Also, rabbits are annoying characters, especially Bugs Bunny, Energizer Rabbit, Easter Bunny, Peter Cottontail, Greg the Bunny, etc.