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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

??!! Easter Bunny Meat

Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:56 AM

I can't stop looking at this photo in this morning's New York Times. It's so enormous and so... meaty.

Rabbit hams.

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Oh, but it could SO be about you. Hasenpfeffer, anyone?

Posted by mkyorai on March 20, 2013 at 9:06 AM

I've got an issue with whomever took this photo. Just wrong.

Posted by Field_Mice on March 20, 2013 at 9:29 AM

As I understand it, Kosher law forbids the eating of rabbit. But rabbit is an animal that "chews its cud" which Kosher law does the eating of allow. Oh God what a mess you have made.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on March 20, 2013 at 9:33 AM

So that's what the Cadbury Bunny looks like on the inside. Makes sense. A rabbit who lays eggs is made out of ham.

Posted by Collin on March 20, 2013 at 9:39 AM

Great graphic ! Just look at the colors, the textures, the composition, the adorable wabbit.

Posted by Cornichon

on March 20, 2013 at 9:52 AM

@4 I'm having trouble finding Cadbury Creme Eggs this year. The caramel ones are everywhere. They should stop even making the caramel eggs. Nobody wants those. All their Cadbury Egg equipment should be pumping out Creme Eggs. Somebody, make this happen!

Posted by Brooklyn Reader on March 20, 2013 at 9:54 AM

needs HP Sauce.

Posted by Rowlf on March 20, 2013 at 9:58 AM

@ 6, I saw an Easter display featuring the creme eggs in January at my local grocery store. (The display was small, and out of the way of all the Valentine Day's crap, but there they were.) Probably they sold out early.

Posted by Matt from Denver on March 20, 2013 at 10:02 AM

That picture would be cute with live pigs and a bunny. Those of you who eat meat should take note. Maybe the point was to be unsettling because the live animal/murdered animal picture is not cute at all.

@3, kosher law forbids pork and rabbit.

Posted by biffp on March 20, 2013 at 10:05 AM

@6 - Are you freakin' kidding me? Those caramel eggs are AWESOME. Cadbury anything just rocks. Of course, I'm diabetic, so I have to stay away. Easter is by far the hardest holiday for me to get through...

Posted by sanguisuga on March 20, 2013 at 10:36 AM

Idolatry! Sacrilege! The only feast fit for the holiday is Jesus Meat! Get thee to Easter Mass today!

Posted by Zebes

on March 20, 2013 at 10:38 AM

@9 Shut up, vegan!

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on March 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM

@6,

Fred Meyer in Ballard had a ton of them just this past Saturday. I do agree with you about the caramel eggs though. There's always a glut of them the Monday after Easter. If Cadbury's won't get rid of them, they could at least scale back production.

Posted by keshmeshi on March 20, 2013 at 11:12 AM

The bunny is not cute. The bunny is sinister! Who killed all those ham animals, huh? Who?

Ya, sure..couldn't be the cute lil' bunny...noooo..not the bunny! But actually yes! The bunny! See how it's laid it's eggs around the ham animal corpses...ready to hatch and devour their first meal.

Ah!

Posted by ArtBasketSara on March 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM

@ 9, meat is not murder.

Posted by Matt from Denver on March 20, 2013 at 11:28 AM

I like my murdered Easter animal cooked in a crock pot.

Posted by Rob in Baltimore

on March 20, 2013 at 11:36 AM

It has sharp pointy teeth.

Posted by Hanoumatoi on March 20, 2013 at 11:43 AM

@15 Right, it's killing. That sounds so much better, doesn't it?

Posted by ian on March 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM

Hilarious comments section for this product: Fresh Whole Rabbit.

One of my favorites is "I bought two, left them alone in the refrigerator for a week, and now I have thirty-eight. Off to buy a bigger fridge."

http://www.amazon.com/Cloverdale-Fresh-W…

Dominic - Shop local at Amazon.com

Posted by ScandalMgr on March 20, 2013 at 11:54 AM

@ 18, yes, it is. But some animals are prey for others. That's just the food web. Go veggie if it makes you feel better, but don't pretending that simply killing animals for meat is, in and of itself*, a moral wrong. You have no evidence or reason to support that position.

* The state of modern factory farming is a whole different matter, and is quite evidently morally wrong.

Posted by Matt from Denver on March 20, 2013 at 12:19 PM

Ooo! Pink is an Easter color!

OTOH, those things looks like an organ with an oesophagus sticking out of it. Gross.

Posted by treacle on March 20, 2013 at 12:28 PM

@15 - Totally depends how it's done. Dead preystock is not murder, (as long as it's not humans preying on other humans). But factory farming is totally murder. Blind, thoughtless, mechanical murder with no respect. As you did point out in @20.

Posted by treacle on March 20, 2013 at 12:33 PM

I'd totally go for the rabbit over the cooked ham. Hunter's rabbit with green olives or baked in mustard with white wine and veggies do the job pretty well.

Posted by anon1256 on March 20, 2013 at 1:14 PM

I loves me a ham, egg and bunny sandwich!

Posted by Senor Guy on March 20, 2013 at 2:15 PM

@20, it's bad if it's done efficiently to produce meat for a large number of consumers?

Posted by GermanSausage on March 20, 2013 at 3:00 PM

@ 20, it is if it complete treats sentient beings as though they're senseless objects without their own needs and natural right to care.

Posted by Matt from Denver on March 20, 2013 at 3:24 PM

@25 - Stuffing sick animals full with antibiotics while in feedlots/cages isn't efficient, unless you are talking about the ease of generating profits by skimming on safety practices. Same thing applies to agribusiness.

Posted by anon1256 on March 20, 2013 at 4:24 PM