Rabbit meat industry insiders blame its decline for so many years on an undeserved bad rap. Though farm-raised rabbit tastes like -- surprise! -- tender chicken, it has a reputation as a tough and gamey meat (likely because wild rabbit generally is). I know tastes are a matter of opinion but I suspect that this author has no idea what they are talking about.
Rabbit,domesticated or wild,tastes like rabbit,not chicken.I eat many wild rabbits that I shoot each winter and they are not tough or gamey.I have had both wild and domesticated rabbit cooked together and you can not tell the difference.
My grandfather used to raise about 8 or 9 rabbits twice or three times per year. He kept a buck and doe. When the little ones were 2 weeks old they were removed from their mother and begun on rabbit food. If you leave the babies where the buck can get to them, the will kill them and eat them. Anyway, my grandfather loved those rabbits. He would pet them and sit in a lawn chair and pet them. Then, the day they turned 8 weeks old he would go out and pick them up by the hind legs. Once they were just hanging down he took what looked like a small baseball bat and hit them just behind the head. They never moved or knew what happened. Then he would skin them and not get one hair on the flesh. That was a big item with my grandmother. We ate a lot of rabbits. Smothered or dumplings, sometimes like chicken fried steak. Squirril pretty much the same taste.
As you all know the rabbit is not a member of the family Rodentia. It is a member of the Family Lagomorphae. The differentiation has to do with the fact that they have 2 pairs of upper and lower incisors whereas the Rodents have a single pair of incisors.
Both are very tasty if properly prepared.
My grandfather used to tell me that in East Texas, wild rabbits would carry "wolves" in their flesh. That was a type of parasite. If a rabbit was killed in the hot summer months the "wolves" were present and made the flesh inedible. If, however, they were killed once the weather turned cool, the parasite could not be found.
That is pretty much all I know about rabbits.