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  • DIET: Don't laugh, but rabbits are scarce; producers can't ship bunny meat fast enough

    08/07/2005 5:57:53 PM PDT · by BulletBobCo · 101 replies · 5,650+ views
    West Virginia Gazette ^ | August 7, 2005 | J.M. HIRSCH
    WEST HAVEN, Vt. (AP) -- Talk about culinary irony -- rabbit meat is in short supply. Despite the critters' proclivity to reproduce, demand for rabbit meat has surged in recent years and breeders are struggling to supply the many trendy restaurants adding it to their menus. "We could easily be doing 1,000 a week. The demand is there,'' says Langis Anctil, whose Champlain Valley Rabbitry farm in West Haven, Vt., is working full tilt to raise that many bunnies a month. Of course, it's not that rabbits don't reproduce fast enough -- it's just an 11-week cycle from birth to...