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Fryer Rabbits
Eating Healthy? Yes, the advantages that rabbit could offer are related
to quality and nutritional properties. Because rabbits are fed high fiber, low energy diets based on alfalfa meal or
other fibrous feeds, rabbit meat is low in fat and perhaps is lower than most meats in cholesterol. Rabbits are grown
without the use of feed additives, such as antibiotics and hormones. Chickens and turkeys, for example, are fed quite
a number of feed additives. While these are unlikely to be injurious to human health, a common perception is that they
might be dangerious. Similarly, rabbits are raised on a low grain diets, which is a desirable attribute to many people
who do not believe that animals should be fed grain that could be eaten by people. Rabbit might thus be promoted as
" the ecological meat," produced using noncompetitive feeds, or the "all natural meat," produced without the use of feed additives.
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