<p>What’s wrong with eating rabbit? Didn’t American people in the previous centuries hunt rabbits and quails all the time?
And why some kinds of animal deserve to be slaughtered for meat and some are not?</p>
<p>It’s wrong to think Asian peoples eat more rabbit meat than other peoples in the world.</p>
<p>Italy is the country that has the highest rabit meat production.
And Italy ranks 2nd place in rabbit meat consumption - 5.71 kilogram per year.
Malta ranks 1st - 8.89 kilogram per year.
China ranks near the bottom - 0.07 kilogram per year
Japan ranks last - 0.03 kilogram per year.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that’s a factor as I like Bugs Bunny, but don’t care either way. He’s a cartoon. :)</p>
<p>Also, there are plenty of folks who find Bugs Bunny’s character to be so annoying and irritating that his iconic status would actually ENCOURAGE them to eat more bunny rabbits. </p>
<p>@scholarme,
Your morgue remark reminded me of a cheeky, dark ad in a magazine years ago for some outdoor gear manufacturer (was it Columbia?). </p>
<p>I nearly spat out my coffee when reading the ad copy which suggested that the Donner Party might have enjoyed a better outcome in the high Sierras had those unfortunate people worn their performance outdoor clothing, because “only chicken should taste like chicken…”</p>
<p>Speaking of Bugs, did you know that Bugs Bunny’s chattering while munching carrots is based on Clark Gable’s hamming it up in this scene in It Happened One Night?</p>
<p>Wild turkeys are actually highly intelligent and clever. </p>
<p>A reason why they’re actually hard to hunt and why Ben Franklin proposed the noble wild turkey as the US national bird over the Bald Eagle whom he regarded as dishonest for its scavenging ways. </p>
<p>As for the negative perception of intelligence of turkeys, another reason is how farmed turkeys have been bred to be much more docile and compliant for food production. Highly intelligent and clever turkeys don’t exactly facilitate modern farming/food production. </p>
<p>My husband fried up some squirrel early in our marriage. It didn’t taste TOO bad, and I probably could have eaten it in a meat pie or casserole. But on the bone, there was no denying that I was eating rodent.</p>
<p>One of our neighbors used to happily cook off some of the ground hogs that he shot; she swore the rendered fat could cure almost anything.</p>
<p>Sure, I’ll eat almost anything if it tastes good. I can love a pet and then eat it. I guess I can just easily disconnect things in my brain that way. Probably means I’m one step away from being a psychopath or something. On the other hand, when I had to work in a lab and kill bunnies for research, I really didn’t like it (and eventually went into another line of work, because of that and the high levels of radiation exposure, which gave me more sleepless nights th the bunnies).</p>
<p>I’ve enjoyed rabbit, emu (yum! one of my faves), alligator, elk, venison (very fresh, hit by car in front of our house, butchered immediately), beaver, octopus, and I’m not even sure what else.</p>
<p>My sister won’t eat many sea creatures (lobster, octopus, squid) because she enjoys watching them in the wild. I’m pretty sure she’s OK with bunny, though.</p>
To clarify then, the turkeys around here must be domestic turkeys, Quips, witticisms and one-liners are clearly wasted on them. And further info on the intelligence of the domestic bird:</p>