Does anyone else get slightly creeped out by this statement?

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I know its hypocrit of me, but i'll never eat a rabbit, but i do eat meat, so yes i'm a hypocrit probably xD So i think that sounds pretty creepy :x Why would you eat little bunnies, that creeps me out as much as it does that people actually eat cats.

The only thing weird in that statement is herpy derp.

I've heard that rabbits supposedly taste good, I haven't eaten any myself. If it came from a pet owner, it'd creep me out, it's your pet, but if it came from someone raising them as food (does anyone) it would be expected that they feel that way.

Rabbits are very tasty, and raising rabbits for fur and for meat is a well established, if small, area of animal husbandry.

All good farmers are fond of the animals that they keep. And that is not inconsistent with the intention of keeping them for the eventual purpose of food. Bunnies may be cuter than cows, but that does not mean that cows are less worthy of affection from the people who keep them.

Well technically the guy isn't a rabbitkeeper (I used the wrong word for this) but actually just someone who has a pet rabbit that he loves to bits and cuddles all the time, but he says they're delicious for eating.

In that case, it provides even a greater explanation for why he might of used the slang "herpy-derp", as a self-defacing comment prefacing a statement that was going to sound off-kilter or silly, because he obviously loved rabbits himself, and would not eat his pet. Maybe, at some point earlier in his life, he enjoyed eating rabbit or he heard they were delicious eating, which I can certainly attest to.

Anyway, for me it's just a silly or what some might call a dopey statement; in that context the "herpy derp" preface makes sense.

I don't see it as creepy at all, because some people love bunnies and some people love the way rabbits taste, within the overall culture of the US. Herpy derp, from that world view, sound like a better description to me than creepy,

I cooked live lobsters once. Traumatized me for a month. Now I only order it at restaurants

Considering the number of rabbits that come through my yard and eat my plants, I'm sure I'd kill and eat one if I knew how to operate a firearm, and if I weren't such a humongous pansy.

Last edited by bernerbrau on 29 Jun 2012, 3:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sounds like an unsuccessful joke to me.

I wouldn't eat our pet rabbit, but I would like to point out to the people who think of cute, fluffy little bunnies that probably fart glitter when they hear "rabbit" that not all rabbits are like that.

See the one in my avatar for example. He's ours. He's much bigger than that now. That picture has not been manipulated to make him bigger either. Thats my husband sitting beside him. He's mean to everybody except my youngest daughter, and he will bite. He will also scratch if you try to pick him up. Not her though, she can do anything to him. The rest of us are scared spitless of him.

Well, I've known people from other cultures who had that approach to dogs, so some people are obviously able to love their pet yet be able to eat its kin.
My own father ate dog once in Russia (although he didn't know at the time he ate it). Finding out didn't ruin the meal for him, despite his love of dogs, so some can.

I could not eat the meat of the animals I love the most (turtles in particular, would also have big trouble stomaching dog or guinea pig, and I would never eat an animal who I knew had suffered in the process of cooking, like frogs, turtles, shrimps and lobsters do).



OliveOilMom, we once had a rabbit. She was your regular size little rabbit but she was as aggressive as yours. You'd try to pet her and then she'd suddenly bite, or she'd just bite if you passed her by. So even the fluffy little bunnies can have very un-fluffy personalities.

Don't know what herpy derpy means (don't want to know either), but rabbit is food. People can like things but still eat such/sell the meat. Cow farmers often like cows.

I'd hunt rabbits [with a bow] if there was any around here. Only see them killed by cars.

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i even had rabbit once, wonderfull meat and they can reproduce almost as fast as you scuff them down.
i dont see why its any crueler than eating lamb, beef or pork, probably has a greater capacity for suffering than a chicken so i guess its worse than that.

From the urban dictionary, the term derp first originated from the show South Park, used as a self defacing comment or derogatory comment toward someone else when they do something perceived as stupid or dopey. Also a more politically correct term to get away from the R word that several different combinations of this phrase take the place of.

Given what the term means, it was definitely an appropriate comment to be made in front of the way he phrased the comment about delicious pet rabbits.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=herpy-derpy

1. herpy-derpy

uselesss; nonsense.
None of your herpy-derpy talk!

I've heard a horror story from someone's childhood of relatives stealing around ten pet rabbits around Christmas time. Her cultural background suggested they were eaten.

Chicken fried rabbits is yummy!

I can raise food and eat it I still don't eat my pets though.

More the way said than any thing.