There’s something unsettling about a company that sells rabbit meat as a food product, and also sells rabbits (and rabbit parts) for biological research:
I’ve known about the food product for years (though never felt like trying it), and I knew rabbits were used in biology labs, but something irks me about putting the two together under one roof…
Couldn’t see a word about them selling rabbit parts for food.
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Sorry, accidentally posted a sublink. Here’s the main one:
Presto, dinner and laboratory-grade animal tissue on the same page.
I have no problems with it. They started out raising rabbits for human consumption and then branched off into biomedicine having the knowledge how to handle the critters and it’s not like they use the same animals for both purposes. Lab animals are meticulously bred for special purposes and there is no way one of those would end up on somebody’s plate. They are far too expensive for that.
Apart from that, rabbit tastes good.
Matter of opinion I guess. I always thought it tasted like low grade chicken.
Some people would say the same about human flesh if it was cooked and seasoned right.
And this is a problem?
I really don’t see anything particularly disturbing. In both cases, the rabbits are grown for non-pet purposes, and as long as they’re treated decently, what’s the problem?
I’m sure that Latte, Hazel, and Cinnamon disapprove, though.
Of course it is. It means we are slaves to our tastes.
ps. If you are that keen on meat, eat it how it was meant to be… raw.
Wabbit season.
Rabbit is delicious if cooked correctly. It can be a very dry meat, though, so it’s well served as a stew.
I can’t say I’ve had raw rabbit, but I have eaten raw beef. I do like cooked rabbit though.
Will we need to set the table with X-Acto knives?
Big tip. Don’t serve it at Easter because the kids get very very upset.
True dat.
Duck Season!
This site does talk about the same rabbits as food or furry friends. Or possibly both - keep it as a pet for a while, then kill it yourself, which is what people sometimes used to do.
My father had a pet chicken for a while when he was a kid. One day he came home to find no chicken in the yard…and the family was having chicken for dinner. Grandma Bodoni was not at all sentimental when she had 8 mouths to feed.
My cousin bought a calf for their farm that was half pet, half “to be processed when it comes of age.” To prepare his young kids for that, they named it “Hamburger.” Curious if the 4 year old had grasped the reality of the situation, I asked him once what his calf’s name was. He got this devilish look on his face, rubbed his belly robustly and said “His name is Haaaamburrrrger!”
My dad had “pet” rabbits when he was a little kid. He says he was so little, he didn’t notice how many there were … or how many more there were … and then, which ones were missing. And that he was too young to put two and two together when he got new rabbit-fur slippers, or they had rabbit stew for dinner …
At many county or state fairs, there will be a booth with someone selling rabbits, and if you ask for one, that person will respond “Pets or meat?” and serve you accordingly.