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Old 08-15-2004, 11:28 AM
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When I was younger (like high school) I was given a US Army Special Forces survival manual, which warned men in the field not to eat too much rabbit, as it had absolutely no nutritional value. In fact they mentioned a syndrome called "Rabbit Starvation," where people had starved to death with a belly full of rabbit. Apparently any protein or caloric value cannot be absorbed by humans. It might be tasty and fill you up, but there is nothing to be gained from it...so that manual said.

This has led to many heated arguments, especially from rabbit enthusiasts, and unfortunately I no longer have that manual to prove my point, but it was there in black and white, and I remember reading it. I don't argue this point, merely throw it out. On the other hand, the manual did not say that eating rabbit would hurt you. It just won't help you.


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Old 08-15-2004, 12:16 PM
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I wonder if you dried it and ground it into a meal?
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Old 08-15-2004, 12:29 PM
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Tai, heres a standard you should go by. If there is more than a foot of snow on the ground around your house. EAT UP ! If not dont. Looks like your safe my friend.

Ive personally had a Rabbit or two for dinner but can honestly say I agree with Dana, if theres one animal you can probably get sick off , its Rabbit. I too have heard that there is no value in Eating a Rabbit other than to fill a belly. But then you might get the CHITS from it and have an empty belly.

Stick to the Cacti and Sanoran Desert hen. If they taste like quail, im envious.

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Old 08-15-2004, 12:32 PM
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Around here nobody eats rabbit till after the first frost. I always heard it was to prevent rabbit fever. a friend of mine used to get it every year. I remember his hands peeled really bad and he missed a couple days of school.
Interesting propaganda from the government there Dana. Wait till Jenny Craig heres about this. No more fat chicks. I heard the same thing about celery. That it took more energy to chew than it returned.


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Old 08-15-2004, 02:08 PM
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O.K. There's enough other critters, dove and quail out the A hole. We have a sh1t load of varmits.
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when you gut the rabbit you are supposed to check its liver for spots and scars
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Old 08-15-2004, 05:27 PM
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The "rabbit starvation" thing sounds very similer to something I read about mice and wolves. Wolves in a certain area (I forget where) live on nothing but mice for a certain part of the year. Some scientist was doing research and lived on the mouse diet himself. At first he skinned and butchers them getting all the tiny bits of meat, but he was getting malnutrition, which didn't make sense since the wolves didn't. Eventually they figured out that if they eat the entire mouse, bone, skins, and all, like the wolves did, then the malnutrition problem went away.


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Old 08-15-2004, 05:34 PM
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Hey Tai, varmint stew, with agave cactus juice for dessert. Invite me over for supper.


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Exclamation Tularemia - rabbit fever

Don't know about any food value, but I learned about this when
we were teenagers from our local rod&gun club..
Watch out for white or yellow spots on the liver..
Don't gut and clean with any cuts or wounds on yer hands..
Wash carcass real good, wash yer hands with soap.
AND when hunting don't shoot any rabbit that acts " odd " or sickly..
All my years of bowhunting deer, I always passed up shots ..
Just wasn't worth it ..
Here's some "stuff " ...........
http://www.beaglesunlimited.net/rabb..._tularemia.htm

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Old 08-16-2004, 06:37 PM
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Interesting, thanks.
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