Out of all the animals people eat regularly, something like a rabbit should be low on the list as they have so little viable meat.
Oh here's a great bloody giant slow cow with loads of meat just sitting there... nah mate, lets fry up this lil tiny woodland creature wots all fluffy an cute, bet they're right tasty morsels.
Fakin precks.
My Grandparents lived through the Great Depression where a lot of the times you didn't have anything for food, like just bare cupboards and dust and they made do on birds and mice. AT the time they were in North Dakota so not a lot of fishing spots, but if you were fortunate enough to be by a lake or some thing the people nearby would fish it to death so...