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<p>Then you’ve never seen THESE cows:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI</a></p>
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<p>Shame on those people protesting one mammal and not at all concerned about the store selling other mammal species. I hope Whole Foods does a great business with its new product. </p>
<p>I’ve eaten rabbit and horses. I’ve also eaten frogs, bus, camels, warthogs and gazelles. I’ve had ostrich eggs, but I don’t think I’ve eaten ostrich. I think if you make the decision to eat animals there’s not a lot to choose between them, though I’m pretty sure I’d rather not eat dogs, cats, or any of the monkeys or apes.</p>
<p>We’ve had pet bunnies. They were boring.</p>
<p>“I’ve eaten rabbit and horses. I’ve also eaten frogs, bus, camels, warthogs and gazelles…”</p>
<p>Bus? You must have been very hungry! 
(gotta love that autocorrect).</p>
<p>Agree - pet bunnies are boring.</p>
<p>The weirdest protein I ever tried was grizzly bear meat. Did not like it at all, so I mostly stick with chicken and salmon. </p>
<p>I have no problem eating meat, though eating a bunny might bother me. However, I would have no problem with anyone else dining on rabbit. I absolutely despise the raccoons that destroy my bird feeders, yet I took an orphaned and injured baby to the wildlife rehabilitation center.</p>
<p>A few years back, we had a local guy protesting milk for school lunches. He claimed collecting the milk was sexual in nature and therefore not acceptable to feed to children…</p>
<p>Rabbits, when properly cared for, are extremely social animals who thrive in a household setting. Rabbits in a backyard hutch are both sad and boring. I personally find cats boring but I’m also not going to eat one. I go to Whole Foods; I’m not going to boycott them because of rabbit sales. In fact, I’d be more inclined to boycott them because they sell Eden foods. </p>
<p>When my son was on exchange in Spain, they ate rabbit one night. It was somewhat unsettling for him, as the family pet was also a rabbit. </p>
<p>Our first rabbit lived inside and was housetrained. But he was still boring. He did’t like to be pet or cuddled. And he ate the baseboards and any wires he could fine so while you could let him out briefly you really couldn’t give him the run of the house. The second bunny had grown up in a hutch. We didn’t choose to get either bunny - they were foisted on us. </p>
<p>I don’t know if they still do, but Heifer International used to distribute guinea pigs in South America. They were an inexpensive source of protein, like rabbits, because they do not require land to roam and they don’t eat a whole lot.
Poor people can raise and sell rabbits and guinea pigs a lot easier than they can raise cows, sheep or goats.</p>
<p>My sister-in-law was in Paris with my then-10-year-niece one Easter and they decided to splurge on lunch at the Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower. You can see where this story is going: My sister-in-law asked the waiter what he would recommend for Easter lunch for a kid and, in broken English, the waiter attempted to convince my niece to order the delicious “bunny rabbit.” Yes, he actually used the words “bunny rabbit.” On Easter. </p>
<p>I think that is what started my niece down the road to vegetarianism. </p>
<p>Our bunny was boring and we all became allergic to him as well, though he would flop on the floor, legs stretched out to be petted at times. </p>
<p>Guinea pig, or cuey, is a choice food in parts of South America. </p>
<p>I haven’t met an animal I didn’t like - cows, goats, chickens - that’s why I became a vegetarian. That being said, having guinea pigs, and knowing their amazing personalities, it is incredibly upsetting to me that people eat them, probably more so than other animals.</p>
<p>I help out with small animal rescue and adoption organizations. Most of the time people think small animals (guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets) are ‘boring’ because they don’t take proper care of them. The analogy we always use is - lock up a human and make them spend their whole life alone in the bathroom (which is exactly what cages from the pet store are - glorified litter boxes) - see how interesting they would be. Rabbits are meant to be free-range inside the house - they can be potty-trained, and locking them up is not unlike locking up a cat. A guinea pig needs a minimum 7 sq ft of space. Commercial cages are nowhere near enough space for rabbits and guinea pigs. Yes, it makes them depressed and ‘boring’. Not to mention, being herd animals, they are not supposed to live alone and need at least one companion of the same species. Also, an animal is not a toy or something meant to amuse.</p>
<p>I find it very frustrating how small animals are treated as disposable or kids’ pets. Very few people take the time to give them proper care, enviroment-wise, medical care-wise, or otherwise. In reality, they are as much, and in many cases much more work than a dog or a cat - I have both.</p>
<p>I personally find eating horse a little squicky, and I wouldn’t eat dog. But I recognize that this is irrational when I happily eat cows, pigs (mmm, spareribs) and sheep. So I don’t see the principle here.</p>
<p>I particularly don’t see the principle that people shouldn’t be allowed eat horses that were once someone’s pet, but should be allowed to eat meat from other horses. What, does being someone’s favorite riding horse make Blaze or Stormy an honorary human?</p>
<p>acollegestudent, I don’t disagree with you. I think we are far better off having animals that have been bred to hang around humans like dogs and cats. I never felt like the bunnies we ended up with had a great life. I think there’s enough evidence for intelligence in apes and some other animals to make eating them particularly problematic, there are also diseases that are extra dangerous because we are so close genetically. But I don’t claim to have much logic in how I feel about eating animals. </p>
<p>Bunnies are evil.
(Kidding! It’s a family joke.)</p>
<p>I have no problem with people eating rabbits or keeping them as pets although personally I think of them as rodents, so, ick.</p>
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<p>They can’t be that bad to those with a sweet tooth as seen here:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_gEyg7Nt8”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_gEyg7Nt8</a></p>
<p>With our rabbit, we really tried to give him the life of a house rabbit, and he was litter trained for a time, and very sweet. But then he was not, and did some nibbling on things, and not easy to get back in the cage when needed, so he ended up in the cage far more than ideal. The allergies made it all so much worse. I feared finding him a new home where he’d end up as dinner for a snake, so we kept him to the end of his natural life. The comment about cats and dogs working out better as companion animals certainly makes sense after our experience. </p>
<p>Friends just got back from Peru. They picked out the guinea pig of their choosing and had him for dinner. Gawd. I have a hard enough time doing that with a lobster.</p>
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<p>So you’re a bit of a sentimentalist towards what some would refer to as the “cockroach of the sea”. Interesting…</p>
<p>Nope. You misunderstand. Its a turn of a phrase. Nevermind. That seems to be lost on some readers here.</p>