Ranee Mueller wrote:
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> Rabbit is a food animal, [snip]

Exactly right, and you'd think that would be the end of the matter, but
there are a lot of people who for one reason or another resist that
concept. We raised chickens and rabbits when I was a child and they
weren't pets, they were food (and pelts from the rabbits). Later, I
learned to fish and to hunt (deer) and I was thrilled to contribute
food to the table. Now, I have a vegetable garden and I love eating
what I grow.

I tell people sometimes that getting food from the supermarket is a
compromise foisted on us by our choice to live a life that doesn't
allow hunting and gathering and growing all our own food. Most of them
think I'm crazy.

There was a thread a day or two ago in which the poster described his
school-age girl as vegetarian, at least partly because she loved
animals. No offense, but that's an ignorant little girl. -aem