{"id":4564,"date":"2014-12-26T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2014-12-23T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:20:15","slug":"rabbit-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/26\/rabbit-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Rabbit the New Ethical Meat? \u2014 Vogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/2877439\/rabbit-ethical-meat\/\">Is Rabbit the New Ethical Meat? \u2014 Vogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rabbits make sense as a meat on so many levels. I think it&#8217;s time to start an urban rabbit movement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4598\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UEC-2013-06-13_14-43-00_wm-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"UEC-2013-06-13_14-43-00_wm\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UEC-2013-06-13_14-43-00_wm-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/UEC-2013-06-13_14-43-00_wm.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Meals that are at once ecologically and gastronomically intelligent are much on my mind, and rabbit is the ne plus ultra on this front. Rabbits require neither grain nor land to thrive, subsisting happily on clover, wildflowers, twigs, bark, garden scraps. They don\u2019t produce enough waste to poison the air or water (see cows and methane, pigs and lagoons\u2014best to read up on this on your own). Rabbits are so inexpensive to raise that organizations such as USAID, the UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization, and Heifer International have, since 2010, funded tiny rabbitries in Haiti as a way of alleviating the many burdens of poverty. The Haitian Rabbit Project\u2019s 1,250 farms provide dependable income and create more food than its rabbit keepers\u2019 families can typically eat.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4564'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4564);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'><b>2<\/b> people like this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4564);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4564);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Is Rabbit the New Ethical Meat? \u2014 Vogue Rabbits make sense as a meat on so many levels. I think it&#8217;s time to start an urban rabbit movement. &#8220;Meals that are at once ecologically and gastronomically intelligent are much on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/26\/rabbit-meat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[351],"tags":[71,239,110],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","tag-animals","tag-rabbits","tag-rural-life-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1bC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3612,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/06\/are-rabbits-the-new-super-meat-modern-farmer\/","url_meta":{"origin":4564,"position":0},"title":"Are Rabbits the New Super Meat? &#8211; Modern Farmer","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Nice article. 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