Chase Myatt with one of the rabbits he and his brother, Tyler, are raising for meat. SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to ...

Up to 1,000 rabbits per year could be slaughtered on-farm without an Oregon meat processing license under a bill that would expand an existing poultry exemption. House Bill 2689 would allow the rabbit ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

Rabbits will likely run through Carbondale trustees’ minds for a while longer, as the town debates whether meat rabbits should be left on farms or are a fit for the town’s funky, sustainable character ...

Daniela Larese is a farmer in Ashford. With her partner Nick Weinstock, their 41-acre BOTL Farm raises and sells pasture-raised pork, lamb, chicken and goat meat, as well as eggs, raw honey, ...

A Los Angeles-based animal welfare group Tuesday called on federal agriculture officials to require that rabbits get the same humane slaughter rules used for cattle and other livestock after the group ...

Should rabbits in Connecticut be raised only as house pets, or possibly also for stews and other meals? A proposal to allow harvesting rabbits for food, an idea loved by farmers but hated by animal ...

Carolyn Loveland grew up helping fellow hunters process rabbits. Now she and her husband, John, have added rabbits to their Allens Hill Farm. Yet she hadn't eaten rabbit meat until recently. "Oh my ...

To Kay and Steve Doyan, their rabbits aren’t bucks and does – they’re guys and gals. “This guy just produces beautiful litters,” Kay Doyan said of Bart, a 1-year-old Californian rabbit with black ears ...