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 ...

SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...

A complaint about a resident slaughtering rabbits in their backyard has led the Town of Shelburne to consider creating a new bylaw. “It’s sometimes a difficult thing to look at because people need to ...

Marin County supervisors botched the new provisions allowing on-farm slaughter. Badly. A handful of people might be able to make a few bucks. But the supervisors are willing to risk the health of meat ...

Richfield resident Seth Gadberry, 14, raises some rabbits to show and others to slaughter. His show rabbit Nona, a Standard Rex breed, is trained to use a litter box and ran around his home until she ...

Rabbits, it turns out, are a gateway animal. Because those lead to chickens. Then goats. Then a pregnant sow. And before the two Maryland lawyers knew it, they’d ditched their townhouse, bought two ...