Rabbit: One of the Most Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Meats You Can Eat?

My friend, I have read many of your opinions regarding animals as food. Yet I cannot understand the reasoning behind your position. We are all meat, meant to die. Decomposition of our bodies and all other living beings serves two purposes. Either to feed and prolong the life of other species or to nourish the Earth. This is a simple concept that cannot be avoided, despite our emotional feelings. True hunger will drive mankind to very extreme measures to survive. I suspect that you may have never suffered the extremes of starvation, thus allowing you the luxury of arrogance regarding avoiding the eating of meat to live. I favor a balanced diet, based primarily on vegetables, fruits, and bread, however, eggs, fish, red meat, and dairy products still play a part in our survival. However, when it comes to life or death, I choose meat!

Under duress, I suspect you would choose the same. If not, I and my descendants will live, while yours will die. Thus, is life.

You are not invited to be my hunting partner, after Armaggedon.

That is why all these related food issues hinge on POPULATION CONTROL; hunting,....( EVERYTHING BY DEFINITION "FREE RANGE" ) has a certainty dignity to it, if well done,......and "factory food" made more necessary by population pressure SIMPLY IS VILE, it cant help but be vile,...yo,..."Soylent Green" is base,...low,...desperate,...holding on Toooooooooo tight when the only sane thing to do at that point is let go of life,....because to LIVE under those circumstances you soil yourself irreparably.
"NO MORE WOMB" would not be a half bad bumper sticker.
The problem is NOT that it is under all circumstances "wrong" to eat a rabbit,.....but eating a rabbit "from a box" IS.

Lets get to a world with more forage space per person. Shoot for that.

Not true. Get the worlds population down to 1 Billion,....max. Hunt stuff. Mostly eat veggies,...hunt the rest yourself in the "open space". "Meat" was sustainable as HELL when WE were limited in number. If we don't limit us,.............

I LOVE IT!! :oD

We will :o)

You have to admit, however, it would solve MOST if not ALL of the problems plaguing every species on the planet, and the planet itself.

Baby steps toward "less baby".
Get over "genocide" rants......unless you are a "right to lifer".

Well, I have to admit, sometimes, a 12 Monkeys on the planet doesn't sound so bad. That's usually after an afternoon of discovering news stories that show just how stupid, violent and worthless humans can be...how's that old quote go?

" Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. "

Yea, women too...

Also, I don't eat "rotting" flesh...that's weird.

Thus why I'm vegetarian. I choose to avoid the argument altogether.

no wat is it about

Yep. I liked it.

There were 2 films though if I remember,....

-they were both good.

because I like MEAT with my salad.

And rabbit tastes great. No one is telling you you have to eat meat, but leave the rest of us alone, tofu breath

...Except people like the taste of meat and you can't just go around telling people what to do. My problem with vegetarians is that they don't seem to respect the fact that people have a choice, and some people choose to eat meat.

Biologically, there is nothing wrong with eating meat, so trying to force an ethical view down someone's throat is no different than forcing religious fanaticism down someone's throat.

or trying to make someone believe that simply farming and eating rabbit can truly make an impact

I don't feel like I've tried to force anyone to anything, so you're "I know you are but what am I" tactic fails on many levels.

I agree......... im just letting you know that what this article suggests is not realistic

It's easy, you just hang over their dinner table with a carrot and a stick.

Nothing seems to be safe anymore...

You can thank massive corporations like MONSANTO for that.

Yes, we can remember, Maurice Chevalier, the great French actor. I suspect, named after a descendant famed for being a great horseman (cheval). "Race", your French is better than mine, so please feel free to correct me, as I make this assumption.

I don't know where you get your information, but I continually see chickens I can't chase down without help. Maybe you mean SOME chickens that are kept in those small cages, I can see that. But not all chickens are raised that way

NO. There is a difference. ( I wouldn't "factory farm" ANYTHING! ) ----BUT,....
I DONT LIKE CHICKEN ! I dont really like eating them much,............BUT I DONT CARE FOR THEM ALIVE! Rabbits are reasonably good company.

I think supertramp_ is referring to chicken farming, versus raising chickens. Many of the prepackaged chicken you buy at the store comes from one of these farms. Few open air farms exist anymore.

My point is we are farming chickens.
The MAJORITY of chicken produced in the US are farmed.
A real chicken takes three months grow to adult size, the farmed chickens grow in just 45. They are made to have big breasts, and cannot move more then a few steps because of this. They aren't locked in cages but one giant windowless room.
I am sure you have seen a chicken that isn't being farmed, that is because meat packing companies don't want you to see their animals.

Animals adapt to the way you treat them.
I had egg laying hens that were very friendly.
Rabbits sit in a cage until you take them out, if you feed any animal by hand it will become good company. Rabbits aren't anything special, or different from chickens, you just put value to them because they are soft and fuzzy.
If you think animals should be saved because of personality why do we slaughter pigs when they are more intelligent then your a three year old?

Rocky Balboa had to catch a chicken before fighting Mr. T! "I pity the fool that can't catch a chicken"! " I also pity the fool that will not eat one"!

You're exactly right.

A FERAL RABBIT? I think that you are confusing rabbits with cats. A domestic rabbit is quickly devoured when released into the wild. They do not have time to "go feral". I am filing a suit against the U.S. school system for allowing such comments to be entered into the public domain.

I am well aware of the clubbing of rabbits in OZ. However, these were not domesticated rabbits released into the wild. These were wild bunnies breeding without natural enemies. Please give me a break.

the first time is the hardest. But once you have eaten a rabbit, you'll realize they are delicious.

what makes rabbits nasty?

LOL! I got a good chuckle from that.

republicans are the only ones who work in this country. eat them and who will pay for all your sorry ass entitlements?

eat the criminals.

Fat religious republicans probably taste gay.

You mean the only ones that work at ripping the rest of the 98% of us off (including you) right?

I thought the same thing. A gutted rabbit emits a most disgusting smell. But so does deer, squirrel, and duck. Butchering a pig, enters another realm all together. I am convinced that if we all had to butcher our own meat, the consumption would drop dramatically.

The article suggests the same thing :o)

"I am convinced that if we all had to butcher our own meat, the consumption would drop dramatically." If only that were the rules...

+^d !!!

Blackened GATOR!

My name's Bruce. And feesh are our friends, NOT food!

Rabbits scream - like bloody murder.

I visited some people's land - and while passing many old and run-down rabbit hutches, they explained that some guy had lived there, and had taken up raising rabbits.

One night he tried his luck at slaughtering one. - Of course, it let out the famous blood-curdling insane howl - but right in front of all the other 345 rabbits - who all flipped out - and he was so crazy from it that he killed all 345.

Now that must have been one ugly, nutzoid night.

That's true... I didn't even think about that! But yeah, these people seem more than a little "off"...

I don't see anything psychotic about that argument. It is relevant in context of this story about eating rabbit meat because you must kill the rabbit to eat it.

I never said it wasn't relevant...

Dark turkey meat is great - try it with straight melted butter for a sauce.

Wild meats can be marinated in salted milk overnight to remove the 'gamey' flavor.

Yeah, I've done that marinating trick with deer meat people give us in deer season. I won't waste the dark meat, I just use it in something like stew or stuffing, or even sauce. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try it.

Yeah, you put white meat and some dark meat, with wild rice - ladle a little melted butter. Candle-light -

more vegetarians need to have your kind of view :)

haha good luck with that. Most vegetarians/vegans have different motives than myself. My goal is to lower my impact by stepping down the food chain. If I can have a lower impact by raising my own meat and step back up that foodchain, hell yeah i'll take it!

Of course it is much easier to raise my own vegetables, and I do. Often there is a large portion of food waste that could be returned to the garden by manure. The plus being meat for harvest, self-sustainability, and a lower impact.

Heh. +^d

Baste with lard or butter and wrap with bacon, no more problems.

Life eats life - something's gotta go for you to stay.

TRUE. ( but the day WILL come that we can gengineer a life form specifically to "meat" our monkey nutritional needs; 'krill for man' as it were )

Sounds like a script for two down-on-their-luck outcasts, trying to make a statement to set the krill free.
But what's the hook?