If the population is starving, what are they supposed to be feeding the rabbits to get them fat enough to eat, feed an entire family?

they actually fatten up quite well on grass and such

It's actually good meat and cheap. It can feed families in need.

Rabbits have been getting into my car engine for the last couple of years and have been messing with it. They've got to go.

right into the stew pot cat

I've driven down the highway and have seen rabbits fall out of my engine through looking out my mirror. Literally. I've opened up the hood of my engine engine and had a large rabbit sitting in there. He didn't want to leave. My mechanic said that they build nests and chew wires.

yep chewing wires is one of the hardest thing to cure when you keep them as house pets

Well, at least the people of Venezuela have single payer
universal healthcare.

Rabbits?

he probably meant rats

Rabbits, rats and mice. They are all bad.

I agree.

Newer vehicles wiring insulation and rubber hoses are made from a vegetable based material according to a shop I use and trust. This is why they chew it up. Squirrel's, chipmunks or any animal that can get to it is there for that purpose. One reason I choose to keep my old jeep. Nothing has ever chewed anything.

Maybe there is a solution, I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember a story that during WW2, Germany used to make flavored Sausage meat for their troops.

From Sawdust.

If you have one as a pet it is one thing... but when they are not your pet then they make a good rabbit stew....

If there is a food shortage , and a choice has to be made between human welfare vs animal welfare , which should we choose? Is this really that hard to figure out?

Rabbit stew is great. People have lived off of rabbits. Don't like it oh well

My family was poor through the great depression. The6 lived on things like that

If properly cooked, wild rabbit is good and safe to eat, as long as it isn't infected with the calesi virus or myxamatosis, Just check the eyes for yuckyness, and the innards for spots and discolouration.

The problem with rabbit meat is it doesn't contain much fat, and you can suffer starvation symptoms while eating plenty of rabbit due to this.

Maybe not a problem everywhere, but in australia, they are usually very lean, and need extra fats, oils, butter, etc. to cook with.

Nearly all pets are edible animals that just have become so familiar to humans, that they have special status, until you are really starving.

In many wars, people ate everything, even swapping pets to slaughter so they don't have to et their own pet.

Horse meat is common, donkey, guinea pigs, cat, dog, you name it. If you have visited asia and eaten street food, guess what you have eaten. I really mean guess, because you wouldn't know what it was to begin with.