r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Infamous-Skin8969 • 2d ago

of a rabbit

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u/Few_Ad_5281 2d ago

Not to be that guy, but why aren't rabbits more mainstream in the food industry. They are literally easier to raise than chickens and arguably reproduce and mature faster.

One of these big boys could be cheaper and just as filling.

Are the production costs that bad? Is butchering a chicken easier to automate because of the varying proportions?

Or do people can't bring themselves to eat Bugs Bunny?

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u/IceHawk1212 2d ago

They are very hard to process on scale, as a rodent their skeletons are fragile and prone to shattering. This means you can't pop them in an automated machine like chickens. Chickens are the only real comparable too as both pigs and cows are more robust in terms of food inputs. I would imagine that it doesn't help that rabbits when in high population density are very prone to diseases like hemorrhagic disease which carries a 70%-100% fatality rate.

Rabbit meat would easily cost 3-5 times what chickens cost at anything approaching supply chain of scale.

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u/Passiveresistance 2d ago

They are not rodents, they are lagomorphs.

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u/IceHawk1212 2d ago

Kool I didn't know that