On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:36:35 -0700 (PDT), Roy >
wrote:
>==
>We had a neighbour who ate local rabbits. Rabbits have been eaten by
>all kinds of people but I won't eat them for one reason only. I used
>to shoot rabbits to feed our farm cats. I noticed some little bumps
>under the skin which were apparently parasites and wouldn't risk an
>infection by eating them. Most likely thorough cooking would kill the
>little beggars but I just can't get over feeling them through the skin
>of their hosts.
>==

I used to raise rabbits for meat also, but it was for me, not the
cats.

I quit doing so because of the amount of snakes that were attracted to
the cage area when there were babies. OMG, I had one tap me on the leg
one time while I was adding food to a cage. When I looked down, a big
black snake was raised up to my thigh level and had bumped me. Holy
Crap! you ought to have seen me running backwards.....hehe, funny now,
but it wasn't then!

Moccasins, rattlers, you name it, here in Florida, in the middle of
"Six Mile Swamp" within hundreds of square miles of forests, I've only
leased my property from nature. She's made it clear she can take it
back any time she wishes to.

I got tired of the snakes so I quit raising the rabbits. Lately, I've
thought of starting it again. I miss having the meat.

In all the ones I raised, I never had any with parasites on them as
you describe. Raising them in cages vs being wild was probably the
reason.

Parasites gag me out.