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The Atlantic: Are Rabbits Pets or Meat?

Rabbits are easy to raise and butcher in your backyard, they’re light on the environment—producing six pounds of rabbit meat requires the same amount of food and water as it takes to produce one pound of cow meat—and their meat is lean and low in cholesterol.”  I’ll mention for the umpteenth time, Lewis and Clark had a pack of dogs they took west with them - protein you didn’t have to haul. And guinea pigs can be raised in a small shed, producing enough protein to sustain a substantial family with a very small carbon footprint. Just as with other ‘downsizing’ fads, food production is seeing some very surprising results.

I suspect that if warming/climate change continues, our penchant for squeamishness will take a back seat to survival. 

Just don’t name them. Once you do, you’re pretty much doomed.

08/20/14 • 01:51 PM • ConsumptionFood • No Comments

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