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In August 2022, an animal rights campaign group in the UK called "Shut Down T&S Rabbits" succeeded in closing down a network of rabbit meat and fur farms across the East Midlands region. [20] The specific future direction of cuniculture is unclear, but does not appear to be in danger of disappearing in any particular part of the world.
Hasenpfeffer is a traditional Dutch and German stew made from marinated rabbit or hare, [1] [2] cut into stewing-meat sized pieces and braised with onions and a marinade made from wine and vinegar. [3]
A group of baby rabbits produced from a single mating is referred to as a litter [10] and a group of domestic rabbits living together is sometimes called a herd. [8] A male rabbit is called a buck, as are male goats and deer, derived from the Old English bucca or bucc, meaning "he-goat" or "male deer", respectively. [11]
Rabbit stew, also referred to as hare stew when hare is used, [1] [2] is a stew prepared using rabbit meat as a main ingredient. Stuffat tal-Fenek , a variation of rabbit stew, is the national dish of Malta.
Dark meat is used to describe darker-colored flesh. A common example is the lighter-colored meat of poultry (white meat), coming from the breast, as contrasted with darker-colored meat from the legs (dark meat). [6] Certain types of poultry that are sometimes grouped as white meat are red when raw, such as duck and goose.
Different breeds of rabbit at an exhibition in the Netherlands, 1952. As of 2017, there were at least 305 breeds of the domestic rabbit in 70 countries around the world raised for in the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their value in meat, fur, wool, education, scientific research, entertainment and companionship in cuniculture. [1]
H. W. Fowler (1926): "Welsh Rabbit is amusing and right. Welsh Rarebit is stupid and wrong." [31] Welsh rabbit has become a standard savoury listed by culinary authorities including Auguste Escoffier, Louis Saulnier and others; they tend to use rarebit, communicating to a non-English audience that it is not a meat dish.
Male rabbits are called bucks; females are called does.An older term for an adult rabbit is coney, while rabbit once referred only to the young animals. [1] Another term for a young rabbit is bunny, though this term is often applied informally (especially by children and rabbit enthusiasts) to rabbits generally, especially domestic ones.