Facts about rabbit meat
By Oluwatomi Olatoye
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:1. The office of home economics, state relations of the U S Department of Agriculture has made extensive tests and have stated that domestic rabbit meat is the most nutritious meat known to man.
- Cholesterol level in rabbit meat is much lower than chicken, turkey, beef, pork.
- Rabbit is lower in percentage of fat than chicken, turkey, beef, and pork.
- Rabbit is highest in protein%.
5.Rabbit meat has been used and is suitable for special diets, such as those for heart disease patients, diets for the aged, low sodium diets, weight reduction diets, etc.
- In England over one Million families have rabbits. In America, people eat 30 million pounds of rabbit meat each year.
- Rabbits will produce three kilogram of meat on the same feed and water as a cow will produce half a kilo of meat on the same feed and water.
- Baby rabbits feed of mothers milk so rich that they can double their weight in six short days as compared to a pig at 14 days, calves 47 days, and humans 160 days.
- Rabbits are raised up off the ground and is one of the cleanest meat.
- Rabbits are among the most productive of domestic livestock.
- As the worlds human population grows there will be less land to raise food. The rabbit will play a more increasing role in this supply.
- Rabbits can be raised on both small and large scale production.
- France is the world’s largest producer and consumer of rabbit meat. In Hungary there are rabbitries with over 10,000 does producing rabbits for export to Italy.
- Rabbit meat is all white meat.
- Rabbit was the number 1 Export item of Red China.