They might if they tried it! It's quite like poultry, the flavour is not at all challenging to anyone that eats chicken.
It was once common to eat them in Sydney; in fact my dad tells of a rabbit man that would sell them door-to-door when he was growing up. It was so common that they named the Rugby League team in the area after the tasty critters (the South Sydney Rabbitohs).
I imagine it's not worth the cost. There isn't that much meat to be had and the bodies would have to be processed quickly or kept alive to prevent spoilage. The agency in charge of all of this probably lacks the equipment to do any of this, assuming it would be cost beneficial to do it in the first place.
This is the problem that hunting solves. Issue licenses to allow people who enjoy the sport and like to eat small game to go out and harvest some number of animals. You get the population reduction, and the people who enjoy it get to eat wild game. You control the amount of animals harvested by the number of licenses issued (and some expenses for enforcement, but there are people willing to do that job for not much pay).
Seems more sensible than rounding the animals up en-masse and dumping them in an incinerator.
Except that these particular bunnies are culled from parks in Stockholm - probably not the sort of place that game hunters would like to go, nor somewhere that people using the parks would like to come across hunters doing their thing.
This was my sister's take when my Dad would prepare the rabbits he hunted for dinner. Some how, she had no problem eating an ugly old cow (or deer, for that matter).
Just further demonstrates the benefits of being cute.
Sure. I was being facetious. 1000s of humans die everyday of preventable disease. There are greater tragedies on my book than 3,000 wild rabbits in a crematorium...
This is the third day in a row that I've visited Hacker News and the top story has basically been a fluff story with next to nothing to do with technology or startups.
Find me an article in Nature about how animal mass burns and can be used as a fuel source and I'll let it pass. This one has virtually all information in the article contained in its silly title. Please don't submit this junk here.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 86.6 ms ] threadIt was once common to eat them in Sydney; in fact my dad tells of a rabbit man that would sell them door-to-door when he was growing up. It was so common that they named the Rugby League team in the area after the tasty critters (the South Sydney Rabbitohs).
Seems more sensible than rounding the animals up en-masse and dumping them in an incinerator.
Just further demonstrates the benefits of being cute.
For example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237009/Fu...
Find me an article in Nature about how animal mass burns and can be used as a fuel source and I'll let it pass. This one has virtually all information in the article contained in its silly title. Please don't submit this junk here.