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
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.
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.
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.
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.
These animal rights people never grew up. They are children. Perpetual children.
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.
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.