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I was in the local grocery store (not Walmart) and was surprised to see rabbit meat for sale.
Preppers and Homesteaders lean toward raising rabbits for meat.

Rabbits, Chickens, and small goats are the primary livestock for most.

I touched on this in my article, 5 Best Skill Sites for the Prepper, commenting on the manure being an excellent fertilizer and requiring little attention in rasing them.

Recently the House repealed a law that required red meat labels to identify the origins.This was done in 2015. This means, the store purchased meat is a crap shoot on where it came from. We were already concerned with the GMO’s and use of Antibiotics in livestock rising.

Most buyers expect the meat or other items to be safe for consumption. Few think beyond the grocery aisle where the food comes from, or how it gets there.

FSIS provides a list  of recalls, helping the consumer be informed. Yet how many keep an eye on this, much less know about it?

026-2016 Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods Recalls Ready-To-Eat Turkey, Pork, And Beef Products Due To Possible Foreign Matter Contamination

The quality of our food intake has already plummeted, with fast food and quick microwave meals. The diligent consumer becomes hampered more with the removal of proper labeling. The fight to label GMO’s continues, and now source labels have been removed. Is it a wonder more and more families are wakign up and converting back to
their grandparents methods of raising their own livestock?

As I was making my way to the item I went in for at the store, the Rabbit meat sign stopped me.

3.99 per pound for Rabbit meat. Quite the delicacy, considering a good steak is the same.

So while many continue to purchase their meats, having no idea where it came from, preppers and homesteaders are eating fine.

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Interestingly the Twilight Zone ran "The Shelter" on Sep. 29, 1961. It shows preppers existed as far back as 1961, with the issue of preppers and non-preppers. It's the famous story of the grasshopper and ant. The grasshopper played all the time, while the ant worked and prep. When time came, the ant was able to survive the winter, while the grasshopper suffered.
Socialism wishes to have the grasshopper fed by the working ant, but America was built on ants not grasshoppers.

The show is fascinating to watch, if you have 30 minutes to spare. I only fear this scenario, times a whole town, city, country.

While Doomsday Preppers show the extreme, prepping remains to be simply risk management. I suggest The Survival Podcast, providing great information, without the tinfoil hats.