Well, except for those of us allergic to a lot of the easy sources of plant protein… but even for someone like me, who has to avoid a lot of legumes and grains, we don’t need nearly as much meat for adequate protein in our diet as the average American eats in a day, week, or year. Most people could cut down on meat considerably and probably enjoy better health as a result.
This can be problematic, also. Just as eating exclusively rabbits can lead to “rabbit starvation”, it has been shown that eating only vegetables often leads to “vegetarianism”, or in extreme cases, “veganism”.
That sounds dangerous … I wonder if that’s true for Pop-Tarts as well.
Nope. No fruits or vegetables in Pop Tarts. You should be safe, so long as you avoid excessive toasting… 
I assume that by “buffalo” you mean American Bison. That’s still easy to find in the northern NJ suburbs, and it’s actively farmed in Ohio, at least around Wayne County.
Yep, bison is readily in all the grocery stores I frequent, from Whole Foods to Jewel. Not sure where it wouldn’t be. I’ve even seen it at the Kroger when visiting my dad in Dallas.
And I’ve had rabbit in restaurants on several occasions. I don’t see fresh rabbit in the stores often but frozen ones seem to be available regularly.
I’ll add my voice to the “hard to find” camp. My sister wanted to buy some rabbit for a family dinner. Her husband’s family is of Welsh extraction, and this was for some holiday or other. She finally found some but it was hard, in our area at least. (NE Kansas)
She does know that Welsh Rabbit is made with cheese, right?
Once again, bison is something that would require a trip to Wholeys or to one of the very few specialty butcher shops still in the area. Giant Eagle is the dominant grocery store chain in the area and they don’t carry bison. It may be the result of a vicious circle. They stock what sells, and since they don’t stock bison it doesn’t sell, so…but the bottom line is they don’t have it. Nor ostrich nor anything, really, beyond the Holy Trinity of beef, pork, and poultry. Their selection of seafood, OTOH, can be surprising.
Salmon is very poplar around here, and you can find it in stores … although it’s easier to just scoop them out of the creeks (if you have a fishing license and tags of course).
I can’t imagine eating rabbit after having seen Repulsion many years ago.
It’s hard to introduce a new animal into a culture sometimes. We raised some turkeys and chickens for ourselves when I was a kid (and even a pig once). I saw the process from chick to table. I have relatives that are/were farmers who raised dairy cows and some other animals. I never blinked once at eating these critters.
(A lot of people around me are hunters, so also grew up with no issues with venison, pheasant, etc. Ditto for fish.)
But all the people I knew who raised rabbits did so as pets only. It would feel basically like eating dog. But if you grew up in a culture where dogmeat was okay, then it’s different.
Ergo, there was never a major commercial rabbit meat industry, therefore it’s really hard to start one.
Oh yes, but it was some other dish she was making, I’m not sure what.
Now I’m thinking of the old Bugs Bunny cartoon with the king asking "Where’s my hassenpfeffer?
Where I live, rabbit is a local product not sold in stores. Lots of farm/homesteader types raise rabbits for meat and many will butcher them for you. It is one of the few animals you can raise economically for meat in a small area. I eat it moderately often as I have a friend who raises show rabbits. Apparently to win they need these special markings and if they aren’t born with those, into the freezer they go.
If you think you are going to cut it up like a chicken you’ll be surprised, as they are mammals and designed quite differently. But there is no need for shards of bone in your meal. They are very edible, not gamey, all lean dark meat, and there is a lot of meat on a rabbit, about the same as a chicken of similar size.
The reason Americans don’t eat rabbit, in my opinion, is a result of the hegemony of industrial commodity farming such that most people eat a far more limited diet than their immediate ancestors. Local foods are somehow unavailable now, except where socialist lefties have formed various alternatives like CSAs and farmers markets.
I’ve eaten rabbit in and around Paris. It’s common in the markets and foodie areas.
I’ve also eaten wild rabbit in Aus before the success of the last round of bioligica control . It’s not more common in Aus because the regulation and biological control of a pest animal makes it both more complex and more difficult.
There is a grocery I’ve never been to that advertises they sell rotisserie rabbit near me, I think the local ag gov agency keeps pushing rabbit as a food source.
That brings to mind a scene from, IIRC, the TV show “China Beach”. The nurses go into town and at one shop they find a cute puppy. After cooing over it and deciding to buy it, they hand it back to the shop owner. The shop owner failed to ask that question, and got the answer wrong.
Rabbit season!
Not so. It’s less than 2% of contents, but each of the fruit-filled Pop-Tarts has at least some dried fruit in it: https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/nutrition.html
Giant Eagles carry hobbits and wizards. Don’t expect bison.
Me too. I could probably trap some rabbits although the neighbors may notice but God only knows what diseases they may carry like tularemia.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/health /2015/07/28/tularemia-weld-county/30780991/
Broken link since it is an autorun video.
