Give your family the security it needs to survive these uncertain times

We are all aware of the current problems in world food chains, causing outbreaks of disease and constantly stealing hard earned money from your pocket for sub-par food. So ask yourself a few questions right not about the meat you put in your mouth every day: Would you like to know exactly where the meat you are eating came from and what happened to it during its lifetime? Would you like to fully control the...

Is rabbit on the menu at your local restaurants yet?

More and more often I’m coming across articles about local American chefs taking a more European look at food and adding rabbit dishes to their menus. Earlier this month there was a great article about chefs in Asheville, North Carolina, buying locally grown rabbit meat. And just last week, an article popped up about chefs in San Antonio, Texas, having a high demand for rabbit dishes on their menus. Not only...

Providing a sustainable income with rabbits in Vietnam

In the northern province of Phu Tho, Vietnam, a British international aid organization called Plan has begun working with local farmers to help them find a sustainable income as well as put food on their table – with meat rabbits. Rabbits are ideal livestock for farmers in poor countries because they grow rapidly, are not expensive to feed and can reproduce often. It is also easy to learn how to care for meat...

Should you start raising meat rabbits for profit?

While earning huge profits from rabbit meat is generally not in the cards, that doesn’t mean that you can’t live comfortably off the profits and the work is certainly not very hard. At the moment there is an incredibly high demand for rabbit meat and not nearly enough suppliers. More and more restaurants are adding it to their menus in an attempt to be more European, many supermarkets in America carry...

Becoming a locavore starts at home

It’s no secret that the trend of buying and eating local is on the rise, especially in North America where most of the produce travels from an entirely different continent. Environmental activists want you to eat local because you’ll cut down on the pollution and destruction of fossil fuels caused by transporting those oranges from Brazil to your breakfast table in Maine. Growing solely in greenhouses...