Hungry And On Benefits

[Georgiesmum]

Did anyone else see that programme last night showing a young couple out catching wild animals, rabbits, a mole and even squirrels to use for food. After catching a rabbit and killing it, they skinned it and the chap gave the complete head of the rabbit for their dog to eat. which he wolfed down

[fiction-factory]

Yes. People have been doing since this long before benefits were introduced but it is less common nowadays. A lot of people still catch and eat wild fish though and some keep their own chickens for eating

[naomi24]

I know people who live very cheaply indeed - shooting rabbits, deer, pheasant, etc., and growing their own fruit and vegetables.

[Georgiesmum]

We have always grown our own fruit and vegetables, picked wild mushrooms to eat, made homemade wine , eaten wild rabbit but if i was feeding my dog with rabbit I would give it some of our cooked rabbit. I was surprised that a dog would be able to completely eat and digest a whole rabbits head like that, ears and all!

[CrapAtCryptics]

There is a job for anyone who really wants one, why sponge off others and kill wild animals needlessly

[Mamyalynne]

That begs the question whether killing wild animals for food is needless CaC - something mankind has always done surely.

Is it more moral to pay a top class butcher for wild game that someone else has killed?

[Georgiesmum]

It used to be a common practise to see rabbits for sale hanging up in butchers windows. I love a nice bit of rabbit stew but its rarely seen now where I live.

[Georgiesmum]

Yes, Mamya, but there were a lot more wild animals about then in our countryside.

[EDDIE51]

Mixamotosis(not sure of spelling) put an end to rabbit as food. Before that they were officially classed as 'pests' there was a 'bounty' paid for every one killed . Some people made a good living out of hunting / killing rabbits. They got paid the bounty and also sold the rabbits for food & skins .

[ummmm]

Eddie - you're talking rubbish AGAIN. My local butcher sells rabbit!!

[tonyav]

So does ours, ummmm.

[Mamyalynne]

Myxomatosis..

The disease reached the UK in 1953. The first outbreak in the UK to be officially confirmed was in Bough Beech, Kent in September 1953.It was encouraged in the UK as an effective rabbit bio-control measure; this was done by placing sick rabbits in burrows, though this is now illegal in the UK under a 1954 law. As a result, it is understood that more than 99% of rabbits in the UK were killed by the outbreak, although populations soon recovered.

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Plenty rabbits for sale on our open market.