During the great depression diets changed drastically. People got what they could to survive no matter how dirty or disgusting. It was a popular fad to eat rabbit meat which was quite cheap, but also quite impairing to ones health. Rabbits were usually easy to find and considered 'poor mans mutton' in many countries around the world. Rabbits were one of the few livestock never placed under the humane slaughter act and were slaughtered in cheap and horrific ways. Commonly hung carelessly by any limb to starve or suffocate slowly and painfully. The seperated ligaments make it more difficult to dispose of the 'bad parts' that were often accidentally paired with the flesh that went into the grinder. Rabbits were the fourth most farmed animal in
