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I'm calling bullshit on the lacking amino acid thing. Never heard of it, they are mammals after all.
My father taught his children to hunt and trap rabbits. We ate what was caught. They were and are still a delicacy, expensive in the butcher shops, if you can find them.
Rabbits were a staple in Australia during the Great Depression, so there is a precedent for an increase in hunting in hard times.
"From one of the unconnected paragraphs making up the column Here and There, published in the Murrumburrah Signal (Murrumburrah, New South Wales) of Saturday 8th September 1900:
Meat has gone up a ½d in the lb in Murrumburrah and Harden, and milk has dropped 1d per quart. Some poor folk declare they will live on underground mutton (wild rabbit) until meat gets cheaper.
2-: From The Areas’ Express and Farmers’ Journal (Booyoolee, South Australia) of Friday 9th October 1903:
Spalding. October 5th, 1903. Something new in the line of strikes occurred here lately, much to the surprise of Messrs Naylon and Millington, two of the camps containing over 100 men struck against the price these butchers were charging for their meat. The men, after living on “underground mutton,” for a few days were eventually successful in bringing down the price one penny a lb., and now they are satisfied."
Rabbit in white sause, slow cooked, hard to beat.
Oh, and rabbits are rabbits, even the pet shop variety are tasty ... apparently.
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