Why Don't We Farm Rabbits on the Same Scale as Chicken If They Breed Much Faster?

You've heard rabbits breed like, well, rabbits. So why is chicken the default meat on Earth while rabbit barely makes it onto a supermarket shelf? It is not the pet problem and it is not breeding speed — it is the egg, the gut, and the fact that a chicken can be taken apart like a manufacturing input. A broiler breeder hen produces roughly 300 kilos of chicken a year of offspring, while a rabbit doe manages around 65 kilos. From there we follow the rabbit's fibre-dependent hindgut, the 1946 and 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow competitions, the 1996 epizootic rabbit enteropathy outbreak, rabbit haemorrhagic disease, and the 1953 myxomatosis epidemic in Britain. We also look at why a rabbit has no fillet, why US federal inspection treats rabbit as non-amenable, why Whole Foods dropped its rabbit programme in 2015, and why rabbit consumption is falling in Spain, France and Italy, the places that love it most. The gap in the end is roughly seventy to one by weight. Next time you see rabbit on a menu and wonder why it costs so much more than chicken, the answer is already sitting in your two hands. Topics covered: Chick versus kit in your hands Why the breeding premise is wrong Eggs, shipping and the chicken pyramid The rabbit's fibre-hungry gut Chicken of Tomorrow and genetics Gut disease and haemorrhagic virus No fillet, slow lines, no inspection Why backyard rabbits still work Pets, welfare and closed exits #RabbitFarming #ChickenVsRabbit #FoodExplained