Some may feel squeamish about eating it, but rabbit has a fan base that grows as cooks discover how easy they are to raise — and how good the meat tastes.

Oh that brings back memories of us eating at the dinner table, thinking it was good (it was). When my father told us it was rabbit all four girls made a beeline for the toilet.

I could relate the same type of story about horsemeat. Can't buy it anywhere here that I know of but in some ares of Europe it is very popular. Smoked was quite tasty. It's all in the mind, a very powerful tool.

We have a restaurant in town that often serves Ostrich and Buffalo and it is GREAT, and quite healthy for meat.

I'm a bit squiffy about the possibility of mixy - is this a concern with any of you rabbit-eaters?

When I was young my mother and I raised, bred, sold, and showed rabbits. We often had on average about 150+ rabbits in two separate barns. It was hard work growing up (we started when I was 5), but I loved it!

Anyway we often had a delima... Aggressive rabbits. You can't bred aggressive rabbits, or they can pass it off to their offspring. You can't show an aggressive rabbit, if it bites the judge it's immediately disqualified and doesn't look good to onlookers who may have bought one of your rabbits. And you certainly can't sell or give an aggressive rabbit to a pet shop to sell to children.

It left us with two options: 1.) Watch and feed rabbit until it dies of age or 2.) Consume rabbit.
So at the young age of five I started eating my own "pet" rabbits. Being so young I never thought much about it. After all snakes have to eat mice to live, and my mother thought me at a young age that bacon was just "dead piggy". So it made sense. Not to mention rabbit is extremely lean and very very easy to breed. We grew up extremely low income so between our garden and a few aggressive bunnies, our grocery bill was surprisingly low too!

I must say I think rabbit is lovely. You don't see it very often around here though. People seem to have got very squeamish about it.

We also have a couple of places near me, one in Bath, and one in Bristol, that specialise in burgers made from everything from Ostrich to Crocodile and Kangaroo. The last time I was in Bristol I had a Crocodile burger, it was very tasty but also very lean.

All this talk of rabbits reminded me of this story of the German who sent giant bunnies to North Korea to be bred to help with the food shortages but Kim Jong Il ate them all

Is rabbit a healthy meat or is it fatty? I know ostrich is a really lean red meat that is good for you and it tastes good. The other meat I wish I could find more easily is duck. I love duck but usually only get it at Chinese restaurants or fancier restaurants. I wish grocers would carry more varieties of meats like bison, duck, goose, ostrich, goat, pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, venison and others.

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