Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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I thought it was to do with lack of certain fats in rabbits?No I don't think so - the rabbit meat thing is more about the fact that rabbits have to eat their own faeces to absorb the nutrients from the food they consume as 'first time through' doesn't break it down enough. This is down to some sort of metabolic quirk that means that it is somehow also passed on to their flesh if eaten. Thus leading to a thing called (IIRC) 'rabbit starvation', whereby someone who eats a diet of solely rabbit meat will eventually suffer a form of 'protein poisoning'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning