Protein Poisoning: Can You Starve from Eating Only Rabbit Meat?

Protein poisoning, also known as rabbit starvation, is an extremely rare condition. But is it really possible to die from eating to much lean meat like rabbit? Are meat rabbits safe to eat? Should you even include rabbits on your homestead or in your prepping?
In this video we break down what protein poisoning is, and if you should really be worried about rabbits starvation.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:00 Rabbit starvation definition and history
4:25 Do rabbits have fat
6:00 Rabbit meat nutrition
7:30 Rabbit meat Vs chicken
9:05 Prepping with rabbits
11:52 Closing thoughts
#prepping #survival #protein #meatrabbits

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  • @TDC7594
    @TDC75943 ай бұрын

    In a few minutes, you've concisely cleared up and swept away a myth I heard decades ago, and accepted without question.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    It's very wide spread, and we've all heard it from people we trust, so you're not alone. Thanks for watching!

  • @gjmottet
    @gjmottet4 ай бұрын

    Great video. I've raise meat rabbits and if I had a dollar for every time someone has told me I'm poisoning myself I'd be rich. It is so annoying.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    Same, I literally don't understand it. Next time someone says it to you send them this video!

  • @Steve-ev6vx

    @Steve-ev6vx

    3 ай бұрын

    An occasional strip of bacon is all thats needed 😂

  • @BruceS42

    @BruceS42

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Steve-ev6vx That is outright heresy! An occasional strip of bacon!? For safety's sake, you should have at least four strips of the regular bacon, or two of the thick cut bacon, on a frequent basis, to help avoid rabbit starvation, or diabetes, or whatever. And now I'm picturing using bacon on rabbit, like we do with venison, to provide the fat...

  • @Steve-ev6vx

    @Steve-ev6vx

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BruceS42 It works. I fried a set of cotton tail back straps and hind quarters in rendered bacon fat last week. It was delicious 😋.

  • @BruceS42

    @BruceS42

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@Steve-ev6vx In case it wasn't clear, I was just joking that you'd implied far too little bacon. I love bacon.

  • @robertspencer5219
    @robertspencer52194 ай бұрын

    In the modern US, it is so hard to find food not loaded up with sugar. Never going to get protein poisoning.

  • @priestesslucy3299

    @priestesslucy3299

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah we get diabetes instead

  • @lordgarion514

    @lordgarion514

    4 ай бұрын

    Not remotely difficult. And you can in fact eat healthy for less money than you can buy cheap trash. You just have to know how to cook it. And that is where most people have screwed up. The percentage of people in America who are almost completely ignorant in how to actually do real cooking is staggering.

  • @davidt1621

    @davidt1621

    2 ай бұрын

    Most of us Americans could use a little protein poisoning and little less Dunkin Donuts.

  • @Roberto-de8xv

    @Roberto-de8xv

    5 күн бұрын

    ​@@lordgarion514What does a day of healthy eating look like? Do you have an example?

  • @lordgarion514

    @lordgarion514

    5 күн бұрын

    @@Roberto-de8xv You have the greatest cookbook that's ever been created..... The internet. Just look up things like "healthy recipes on a budget". You can also look up the various food challenges like the old "$3 a day food challenge" from about 8 years ago. They also have more modern challenges for $5 and $10 a day. Fact is people don't want to actually cook. They rather watch TV or play on the net. If you're opening up a bunch of cans and jars to fix food, you're paying too much.

  • @ParameterGrenze
    @ParameterGrenze3 ай бұрын

    I always suspected that just by thinking about for more than a second.

  • @matthewd445
    @matthewd4452 ай бұрын

    Perfect video. A homesteading channel that uses research for support is a welcome one indeed. Thank you very much.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @trumpwon2240
    @trumpwon22403 ай бұрын

    I did the carnivore diet well over a year.. And had tons of blood work done. Each test showed perfect numbers within the normal ranges.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Same for me!

  • @denmar355
    @denmar3553 ай бұрын

    Butter, Rabbit, chicken, beef, lamb, eggs, and bacon makes for a very good balance for a carnivore approach. The fats are helpful for calories and satiety. All the nutrients you need are there. Meat is the most nutrient dense food on earth. Always try to include organ meats as well. Super food. Great video.

  • @Idrinklight44

    @Idrinklight44

    2 ай бұрын

    Sauerkraut!

  • @sebastianpacurar8350

    @sebastianpacurar8350

    26 күн бұрын

    Very good

  • @raptor909

    @raptor909

    14 күн бұрын

    i'f i'm not mistaken the only thing that can be missing is some vitamins that are low in content(vitamins c and e). So either you eat something like raw liver like the Inuits (c is reduced/destroyed by cooking) or just trow some fish and fruit in your diet just to be safe.

  • @Idrinklight44

    @Idrinklight44

    14 күн бұрын

    @@raptor909 Natives relied on pine needle tea and tea in general to get some of that vit c. Your spot on as far as I can tell.

  • @denmar355

    @denmar355

    13 күн бұрын

    @@raptor909 yes, I eat the liver. One way to do that is save rabbit liver which is very mild and grind a little of it into the ground beef.

  • @ABCRabbitFarm
    @ABCRabbitFarm4 ай бұрын

    Thanks for clearing things up, we have survived on rabbits for 3 years now and it's the best source of food for any one working out to be self sufficient.

  • @vidard9863

    @vidard9863

    4 ай бұрын

    I presume that you are eating some things other than just the rabbits?

  • @priestesslucy3299

    @priestesslucy3299

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@vidard9863yeah, rabbit broth

  • @WasBannedTho

    @WasBannedTho

    3 ай бұрын

    Chickens lay eggs frequently and you get more out of everything per 100 grams. If you are just living off rabbits you are holding yourself back

  • @ABCRabbitFarm

    @ABCRabbitFarm

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WasBannedTho i have tried raising both and every-time i find my self leaning more towards rabbits because of how easy they are to manage, good manure , high meat to bone ratio, fast growth, being able to feed just forage list is endless

  • @WasBannedTho

    @WasBannedTho

    3 ай бұрын

    @@ABCRabbitFarm the upkeep may be easier but the point is the chickens will be doing more than the rabbits so yeah it’s up to you to weigh the benefits but I still would go for both not just one for a balanced diet since it has eggs and meat

  • @jjg1501
    @jjg15013 ай бұрын

    its like you said. its not about how much protein you are eating. it is the lack of other things that you are eating

  • @harleycriswell8504
    @harleycriswell85043 ай бұрын

    If you are still worried about protein posing after this video there is a very easy way of getting more animal fat lard and beef talo. Nether are expensive and can make your food taste great

  • @dirtywookie9868
    @dirtywookie98684 ай бұрын

    Some might be saying poisoning just to scare you from using rabbits as a source of food/clothing 🤷‍♂️

  • @supremepizza3710

    @supremepizza3710

    4 ай бұрын

    Remember when rabbit fur was all the craze in the 70's... and 50's lucky rabbit's foot not so lucky for the rabbit nonetheless, as one wise man said who sold me one back then...🐇

  • @mikejackson2228
    @mikejackson22284 ай бұрын

    Rabbits have plenty of fat. Just eat the brain. Nobody ever talks about that.

  • @drakochief4497

    @drakochief4497

    2 ай бұрын

    Bro, that's savage

  • @Darkfreed0m

    @Darkfreed0m

    Ай бұрын

    Parasites?

  • @skazzwag8
    @skazzwag84 ай бұрын

    Even if your rabbits were extremely lean, wouldn't it work to just grill it with olive/coconut oil or butter? Sounds like you'd get plenty of fat for your dietary needs, and it'll make your mouth water too.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    Exactly! I don't understand why people think it's hard to get fat in a normal diet.

  • @vidard9863

    @vidard9863

    4 ай бұрын

    Stews would also allow you to combine protein and carbohydrates into a tasty and functional diet.

  • @priestesslucy3299

    @priestesslucy3299

    4 ай бұрын

    Or lard. Imo every homestead benefits from a couple of small lard pigs to do digging work and process scraps and carcasses. American Guinea Hogs, Asian Heritage Hogs, something like that. Two of them for companionship, a breeding pair if you produce enough feed, buy in weaners once a year otherwise.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    @@priestesslucy3299Agreed!

  • @owenswabi

    @owenswabi

    4 ай бұрын

    @@westmeadowrabbitsbecause they’re parroting trivia points without actually thinking

  • @Adnancorner
    @Adnancorner4 ай бұрын

    There is also called fish species Grass carp, its a fish that is very popular in Asia as fish fry with tarter sauce. Its a kind of catfish better quality than tilapia in my opinion. The grass carp are extremely easy to grow and they eat nothing but vegetation - leaves. They thrive in room temperature water and really delicious and succulent meat. I tasted it when I was in India on vacation. So you can keep some tanks indoor to raise fish along with rabbits.

  • @uwesca6263

    @uwesca6263

    4 ай бұрын

    I am not sure how easy it is to raise a sufficent ammount of fish indoors. There is a video where some people keep large wish in their basement but i doubt that this will be easy to copy for everyone. In my area in germany outdoor fishponds are quite common so i would copy that. Just make sure to put a need above it for fisheating birds. The major problem is the size.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    That's really interesting. I've been planning an aquaponics system for a long time so I will have to look into this species.

  • @uwesca6263

    @uwesca6263

    4 ай бұрын

    @@westmeadowrabbits in germany we breed mostly mirror carps. They have few scales and thus are easy to process later. If you have moving water trouts are another great alternative. (And tasty when smoked)

  • @priestesslucy3299

    @priestesslucy3299

    4 ай бұрын

    The challenge with grass carp is getting them to reproduce. You can't buy viable grass carp in the US, so you would have to catch them yourself. And figure out how to breed them.

  • @tristancoffin

    @tristancoffin

    4 ай бұрын

    @@uwesca6263 Yes, key note you live in Germany... there is less land per capita. The video is mostly targeting americans....

  • @pista01slk
    @pista01slk2 ай бұрын

    50% fat and 50% protein. Good stuff!

  • @JIMRbach193
    @JIMRbach1932 ай бұрын

    This is class room level instruction. Nicely done.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @denisdrapeau876
    @denisdrapeau8763 ай бұрын

    My mind is blown. I grew up with this myth and it has definitely been a barrier to considering raising my own meat rabbits. Thank you for this and debunking this myth!

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    I honestly didn't know how prevalent it was until I started making KZread videos.

  • @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043

    @justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043

    3 ай бұрын

    I mean are you really ever only going to eat meat? I mean if you're in the Alaskan wilderness like the guy says. Your going to incorporate butter, carbs like breading, potatoes, etc.

  • @Otingocni

    @Otingocni

    Ай бұрын

    @@justdrewtheultramagaspoonc5043 yes i only ever eat meat. Healthiest ive been in decades.

  • @ClaytonBridges
    @ClaytonBridgesАй бұрын

    interesting video. I personally think mostly in terms of survival situations when thinking about protein poisoning

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    Ай бұрын

    It's more relevant in a wilderness situation, but still incredibly rare.

  • @resolutionarybeing1885
    @resolutionarybeing18853 ай бұрын

    I have just found your site. I appreciate the level of valuable information you provide to the small farmer or the more self sufficient urban or city dweller. I have the cutesy, fuzzy problem with butchering rabbits. But if I am going to continue to eat meat, I don't choose to be a hypocrite. Killing any living critter as a food source demands that I be honest with myself. I am not and have rarely ever eaten totally vegan or as a vegetarian. Providing my family and myself with the best possible high quality food is my objective, when and if I can no longer purchase or trade for meat, I want to be prepared. You are a thoughtful being. Thank you for sharing, I like and subscribe.

  • @davemeise2192
    @davemeise21923 ай бұрын

    Thank you for debunking the rabbit meat myth. I've always wondered about that as my dad used to tell us if all we had to eat was wild rabbits we would starve. We hunted them every winter and enjoyed the meat but the only thing I noticed was the meat was really lean. Sadly we only raised chickens and never raised our own rabbits. I never did believe one could over indulge with meat protein. When I became an adult I remember reading about a couple of men who were trapping somewhere in the north. Their diet, according to the writer, was almost exclusively meat from the animals they trapped. He estimated they ate 5 lbs or more each day. They did it for several winters in a row with no issues.

  • @blowitoutyourcunt7675

    @blowitoutyourcunt7675

    3 ай бұрын

    And then there's the story of Ada Blackjack who was stuck in the Arctic with five white men, they all succumbed to scurvy with plenty of meat around. She was very lucky to make it out of that situation alive, probably did because she ate better than the white men she trekked up there w and had more body fat to start out with. I think rabbit starvation has a grain of truth to it, if your diet isn't somewhat balanced - only eating protein can wreak havoc on your system. No vitamin C you get scurvy, muck with your B vitamins and you'll get BeriBeri and schizophrenia symptoms, can't get enough iron? you'll die from anemia... etc etc

  • @ANDunn-tf6xp
    @ANDunn-tf6xp2 ай бұрын

    "Sadweey I've been hunting the same wascally wabbit for 86 years... So SHHHH, be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rabbits." Yours truly, Elmer J. Fudd

  • @antbib
    @antbib3 ай бұрын

    Objective facts are beautiful. Great video.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Fern_Thaddeus
    @Fern_Thaddeus3 ай бұрын

    Made excellent points! Well done!

  • @555Trout
    @555Trout2 ай бұрын

    Great explanation!

  • @ewokjerky4508
    @ewokjerky45084 ай бұрын

    Very useful video!!

  • @jasonanders7003
    @jasonanders70032 ай бұрын

    Great discussion. Good luck in your future endeavors.

  • @ayesaac
    @ayesaac18 күн бұрын

    If you exclusively ate rabbit, you would certainly end up with some deficiencies. But then if you exclusively ate *literally any one type of food* you'd end up with deficiencies. Rabbit being the only type of meat you eat is perfectly fine. There are no risks there. You just need to eat other stuff too to be healthy.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    18 күн бұрын

    That's sums up the video nicely!

  • @jamesofallthings3684
    @jamesofallthings36842 ай бұрын

    What an absurd thing to think. Had never heard it before. It especially would never happen if you're eating the organ meats and fats.

  • @handroids1981
    @handroids19813 ай бұрын

    Thank you. Liked, subbed and commenting.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Awesome, thank you!

  • @MelvinIsMerlin
    @MelvinIsMerlin3 ай бұрын

    Never heard of rabbit starvation as protein poisoning. I thought it had to do with too little fat consumption. I'm still at the start of the video. Edit: You go over what I have stated :o

  • @vpeters2647
    @vpeters26474 ай бұрын

    Always something to concider, many homestead livestock is challanging to feed whithout commercial grain or the ability to process lots of hay .

  • @supremepizza3710

    @supremepizza3710

    4 ай бұрын

    Interestingly my chickens eat a great deal of kitchen scraps from my pizzeria... Lots of lettuce as in must be trimmed a great deal due quality issue nowadays. Fair amount of pizza... They also free range since a tree or two fell on the run... it works. I do supplement with grains which they eat little while free ranging. Summer not fond of lettuce but devour pizza... noticed this winter lettuce is on the menu and pizza not so much... could be frozen water issue. They do get fresh water daily, just eventually freezes so line up at the waterer. Eggs freeze if you do not collect daily, sometime quicker at -4°F... Homestead or not, you gotta to work to feed the peeps.

  • @BIGBigBoiNICK

    @BIGBigBoiNICK

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@supremepizza3710 my chickens eat everything i give to them. Exept peppers, grapes, onions and broccoli

  • @supremepizza3710

    @supremepizza3710

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BIGBigBoiNICK Peppers... eat the seeds, Grapes think tried and nah... onions they just kick around. Broccoli couldn't say... The one that surprised me is pumpkin. They don't seem at all impressed.🤔

  • @michaelmello9510
    @michaelmello95104 ай бұрын

    Nice work

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @peacefulscrimp5183
    @peacefulscrimp51834 ай бұрын

    Great video 👍 You have a new subscriber 👌

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    Awesome, thank you!

  • @davidt1621
    @davidt16212 ай бұрын

    It won't happen unless your bodyfat percentage is in the single-digits and you only eat lean meat for a week. It's what makes people lose weight on the carnivore diet. Gluconeogenesis is the process by which our bodies convert lean meat protein into glucose for energy. The "problem" is that the process takes more energy to convert the protein into glucose than the amount of energy that glucose yields. It's an inefficient process. So if you have any excess bodyfat, it'll get turned into usable glucose and burned as energy when the energy deficit is created by the gluconeogenesis process. Of course if you don't have much bodyfat, like a lot of early American pioneers did back when our nation was still a developing country, then the energy deficit will cause your body to start eating itself, starting with your muscles. When that gets inefficient and you look like you're starving, which takes most people about a week once you get down below 10 percent bodyfat, then your body's organs begin to shut down starting with the least necessary. Your heart rate will slow, your extremities will go numb, you'll fall asleep, and then it will take you. That's the most extreme and rare possibility, and the fact that Americans of all people are worried about this condition from eating rabbits tells you how far some people will go to avoid eating something. That's just pickiness, and it's a psychological condition bred from having the luxury of never actually starving. Far from starving, most of us Americans could use a little mal de caribou.

  • @olukayodeadegoke433
    @olukayodeadegoke433Ай бұрын

    I am from Nigeria in West Africa, and i can pretty tell you this is trange for me. We have never have this myth. As a matter of historical fact, which is likely held across Africa as a whole, Rabbit meat is considered a delicacies - otherwise known as "bushmeat' - something you guys in the west cvalled game animals. Hence, Nigerians and Africans in general consider rabbit meat special.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    Ай бұрын

    That's very cool! I always like to here the perspective of people outside the US.

  • @lennylink8772
    @lennylink87723 ай бұрын

    If this condition was accurate as people describe it, it would become the number one way of loosing weight in the USA.

  • @thedude7319
    @thedude73193 ай бұрын

    08:05 they should have shown a similar breakdown for the rabbit as the chicken. they took the lowest fatty point and compared it to the average off the whole chicken. stark difference

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Rabbit (domestic) whole is on the right, chicken whole is on the left. There's less than 1.5% difference between the to.

  • @TheShorterboy
    @TheShorterboy2 ай бұрын

    It was a low fat issue because rabbits were too lean, it used to be called rabbit starvation as an obligate carnivore/lipovore you need fat.

  • @nithqueen
    @nithqueen3 ай бұрын

    Great video I wonder if this got confused with another thing, ‘’if you eat only rabbit you’ll die’’ was a factoid on the British show QI almost two decades age, and it was cause rabbit doesn’t contain something the human body need’s to survive, but that’s if you ate ONLY rabbit.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Well, most foods (including rabbit) are not nutritionally complete. However if they were fat enough and you at the organs, you could in theory survive off of rabbits indefinitely.

  • @nithqueen

    @nithqueen

    3 ай бұрын

    @@westmeadowrabbits true but most meats are, imma just eat something other than rabbit once in awhile

  • @codyblack1828
    @codyblack18283 ай бұрын

    I'm a prepper and i avoid the prepper communities. You are more likely to be hit with a storm like Katrina or the snow storms we had last year than a zombie apocalypse. My preps helped my family and friends during the Carr fire in california in 2018. It allowed us to be able to feed up to 18 people for 6 weeks when cash was short handed. That scenario is what made me think i need to worry about the weather more than the government coming to take my guns lol.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    100% focusing on short to medium term disasters is far more useful than trying to plan to survive the apocalypse.

  • @codyblack1828

    @codyblack1828

    3 ай бұрын

    Plus some of those people are the most toxic people I've ever seen for new people trying to to learn. The Rambo mentally is strong there lol

  • @merendell
    @merendell3 ай бұрын

    Its always anoyed me when we get weekend warrior preppers who think they need to be ready for nuclear armagedon and base their suggestions off that. I have a much more pratical approach. Keep the pantry stocked so short term disruptions (1-2 weeks) are a non issue. Keep a supply of potable water on hand that can see you through a couple months. Have a couple months to a year worth of freeze dried food with long shelf lifes to see you through long term disruptions. Have some boom booms (dont ban me youtube) for either hunting for food or self defence. asorted supplies to power devices and purify/transport water. Preping is about being ready to weather any survivable disruption to life and give yourself time to secure additional food/water should it become needed. You dont need an underground bunker that you can seal yourself in for the next 30 years and enough supplies to turn yourself into a morloc.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    100% agreed!

  • @dannyduran4270

    @dannyduran4270

    3 ай бұрын

    Not the Morlocs!

  • @Adnancorner
    @Adnancorner4 ай бұрын

    but if you are eating fish and other meats along with rabbit what's the issue ? and buying tallow mixing rabbit meat with it solves the problem. I personally think eating only meat is not correct but I whole heatedly agree with raising vegetarian animals like goat and rabbits. Goats are easy to keep as well.

  • @MajorMalfunction
    @MajorMalfunction4 ай бұрын

    I made a few posts in your last vid about "rabbit starvation" being not about lack of fat, but about lack of certain essential amino acids required by Humans to make certain proteins. I listed a whole bunch, with math and links. Since then I've gone even deeper. Rabbits are low on Phenylalanine. You'd need to eat at least 300g of rabbit meat per day to reach the WHO recommendation. I looked up the symptoms for Phenylalanine deficiency, and found it's dizzyness, lethargy, and the shits. Sounds like "protein poisoning". I also found out something like 1 in 12000 people are born with an inability to process Phenylalanine at all. Sucks to be them. Maybe those who died from "rabbit starvation" had that mutation. But I like you mention a well-fed rabbit won't make you die. Wild starving rabbits are going to have different amino acid profiles. When you're starving, your metabolism changes modes. Anyways, it was fun.

  • @swdw973

    @swdw973

    Ай бұрын

    I know about the amino acid profile too. Something few people are aware of, including the person in this video. You beat me to bringing this up. As far as his statement about this happening with any wild animal, not so in the lower 48.

  • @MajorMalfunction

    @MajorMalfunction

    Ай бұрын

    @@swdw973 IKR? It's not about "fat". Even lean meat has plenty of fats in the cell walls. And we can easily produce our own fats, given the right ingredients. The problem with rabbits and rodents is you need to eat A LOT, if that's all you're eating.* You need to eat about 300g, or about 1 pound per day to get all your amino acids. Modern meat rabbits can yield about 3 pounds. So that could sustain one adult human for 3 days. Modern meat rabbits take about 8 weeks to grow to harvest. So you would need to eat about 10 rabbits per month, per person. That's a lot of rabbits! :) * If that's ALL you're eating. I'm not saying rabbits can't be part of a healthy varied diet. ;)

  • @swdw973

    @swdw973

    Ай бұрын

    @@MajorMalfunction I guess you missed the fact that I was AGREEING with you. The comment about fat content of wild animals was directed at his comment about you can have meat too lean in any wild animal. What makes that statement BS is the fact this is EXTTREMELY rare in the lower 48, and typically only happens to the animals (elk, deer, etc) in a hard winter over January and February. Since hunting seasons are typically in fall and early winter, he was choosing to make a statement that was not applicable about fat content in wild meat, just to try and back up the rest of his statements ,which were also not dealing with the actual issue that you mentioned. This is a case of diverting the issue from the actual problem, just to make it seem like his position on this topic is valid.

  • @MajorMalfunction

    @MajorMalfunction

    Ай бұрын

    @@swdw973 I was agreeing with you, too.

  • @dannyduran4270
    @dannyduran42703 ай бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @copperridgegrow3940
    @copperridgegrow39402 ай бұрын

    Nope. I know a doctor and his wife who raises the rabbits for food and they are pretty much the ONLY protein they eat meat wise

  • @user-cx7rq5cd9g
    @user-cx7rq5cd9g2 ай бұрын

    If you just eat the meat yes . But lets be real for a sec atleast when it comes to homestaders small or big they all will have some sorts of weggies or potatos to go whit it so it aint a problem there

  • @deinse82
    @deinse824 ай бұрын

    This has nothing to do with wabbits, but there is something that's different from protein poisoning, called "protein toxicity", which IS a real thing. Protein metabolism (the breaking down of protein by the body) produces waste products (chiefly ammonia) which are eliminated through the liver, and then the kidneys. Protein toxicity is what happens if, for some reason, you ingest more protein than the ammonia you are able to excrete through these organs. Most commonly, it's when your liver or kidneys are damaged (in such cases, your doctor will put you on a low protein diet). But it is possible for a healthy human to eat enough protein to cause protein toxicity to happen, as well. It would take about 4 or 5g of protein per pound of body weight a day, to get to that point. That is of course a lot, and you can't really ingest enough meat to get there, but it's certainly doable with protein supplements. I know people who aim for 3+ g of protein/pound, and they're close to the danger zone. Important to note that protein toxicity will happen irrespective of whether you also ingest fat/carbs, or not. And it can happen on a much faster timeline than protein poisoning (which takes weeks of eating exclusively protein).

  • @CharlieGoy

    @CharlieGoy

    4 ай бұрын

    Great comment! Thank you.

  • @ollicron7397

    @ollicron7397

    3 ай бұрын

    We are carnivores it doesn't make sense for the human body to exhibit protein toxicity from *animal meat* . Some of these medical journals from the NCBI are so full of sh*t, pardon my language there, but it's true. If what you say were true, these competitive bodybuilders who take steroids would all be dying from kidney failure, but the reality is that they more than often die from an enlarged heart. I won't get into specifics but the average competitive bodybuilder diet has like 4-500g of protein on a daily basis, and you never see the cause of death from these people being protein toxicity on the kidneys unless there was some sort of really rare genetic disorder. A lot of these experiments used for these studies rely on mice and rats, because "experts" debate that the physiology of a rodent is extremely similar to that of the human body. However time and time again this debate has been questioned.

  • @HumansAreCarnivoresNotCows

    @HumansAreCarnivoresNotCows

    3 ай бұрын

    Source: trust me bruh I heard it on 60 minutes.

  • @sebastianpacurar8350

    @sebastianpacurar8350

    Ай бұрын

    Very good commentary

  • @Exquailibur
    @Exquailibur3 ай бұрын

    Even if rabbit had no fat at all its not like you are only eating rabbit anyways, literally any food can kill you if you have too much.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Right! Like what plausible situation would someone find themselves in when the only food available is rabbits. Maybe if you are stuck in a northern wilderness or tundra during winter, but that's about it.

  • @Exquailibur

    @Exquailibur

    3 ай бұрын

    @@westmeadowrabbits realistically this has probably only happened a relative few times in human history as the circumstances have to be extraordinary.

  • @didboy74
    @didboy744 ай бұрын

    Surely only a problem if rabbits were only source of food?

  • @tatskamaster

    @tatskamaster

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes, and even then it's not a really thing with domesticated rabbits, as explained in the video.

  • @janawild4582

    @janawild4582

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes, and no. Yes, meaning you can only get this problem if you eat nothing but very lean meat whether it’s rabbit or something else. because your body has to have fat. Protein and fat is essential for survival. Carbs are not But if you think eating just meat is the problem, you actually would be wrong about that. There are people that only eat meat and are very healthy for it. I would not have believed this years ago, but I know a few of these carnivores, and they are in much better health than they were when they were eating, lean protein and salads. Strict carnivores eat nothing but meat. And some of them have been doing this for decades. It’s definitely a weird way of eating if you grew up with the food pyramid. You really got a dive down some rabbit holes lol no pun intended. But what we’ve been told and what’s being pushed about a healthy diet is actually not accurate.

  • @tatskamaster

    @tatskamaster

    4 ай бұрын

    @@janawild4582 There are many examples of people eating all kinds of extreme diets, surviving for decades and seeming perfectly healthy on the outside. That doesn't mean it's optimal for humans. We simply aren't strict carnivores looking at our teeth and our gut. While it's possible to survive off of only eating meat, it's not adviseable.

  • @priestesslucy3299

    @priestesslucy3299

    4 ай бұрын

    ​​​@@tatskamasterhe even mentioned how the domesticated rabbits get too fat easily, so it would be really easy to fatten them up a bit in the last week or two. To 'finish them' as it were

  • @TheEstriker1
    @TheEstriker13 ай бұрын

    I grew up eating rabbits and I'm 74yrs

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    Sounds like a good endorsement!

  • @josephinestecak4945
    @josephinestecak49453 ай бұрын

    I would rather eat healthy fish, rabbit and chicken than steak

  • @yankeegonesouth4973
    @yankeegonesouth49734 ай бұрын

    Thank you for clearing this up! 10:53 The gunshots (?) after your comparison of rabbits to the Cornish X in an actual situation you'd really need them was a nice mic drop.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    🤣 yea my neighbors were shooting all day!

  • @sebastianpacurar8350
    @sebastianpacurar835026 күн бұрын

    Vă salut,o întrebare ,care este diferența ,din punct de vedere digestiv dintre iepuri și nutria,thanks

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    26 күн бұрын

    I'm not sure, I've never had nutria before!

  • @Otingocni
    @OtingocniАй бұрын

    Too much protein can cause gluconeogenesis not the same as protein poisoning. It has a similar effect to eating carbs in that it raises your glucose levels which can be an issue if you are Diabetic. Rabbit being a very lean meat would be closer to being an issue tham beef as an example. That being said it isn't hard to add some fat to your diet. 7.1g Rabbit meat contains 7.1g of total fat1. Most of the fat in rabbit meat is saturated, followed by monounsaturated fats, with polyunsaturated fats in last place2. Rabbit meat is low in fat, with only 2-3% fats, but during lactation, the amount can go up to 5%3. The calorie breakdown of rabbit meat is 19% fat, 0% carbs, and 81% protein4. Rabbits prone to obesity tend to be more than 20 to 40 percent overweight5.

  • @MouseDestruction
    @MouseDestruction3 ай бұрын

    Its my understanding that the problem with eating only rabbit was to do with the lack of nutrients. They eat grass constantly which just goes straight through them, they do not absorb a lot from this grass in their digestive system. It's not a huge problem though, here in NZ the rabbit hunters of the past would just add some cabbage to their rabbit stew and that would be enough.

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    No that really doesn't have much to do with it. Rabbits have plenty of nutrients, you can see full breakdowns on the USDA food website.

  • @user-xv5iw5zh4m
    @user-xv5iw5zh4m3 ай бұрын

    bro, just share the knowledge and fuck those dumbass haters

  • @gcs7817
    @gcs78173 ай бұрын

    Guys who do primitive wildlife living will talk abbot rabbit starvation diets and bad outcomes

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    I covered this in the video, but wild rabbit is totally different than domestic rabbit. Even then it would be really hard to get rabbit starvation even in a wild survival situation. Just eat the brains or some nuts.

  • @darrent3869
    @darrent38693 ай бұрын

    Advice needed: If I wanted to raise a bunny or a few to eventually process for meat which would you recommend male or female?

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm not sure I understand? Any sex is fine to eat.

  • @darrent3869

    @darrent3869

    3 ай бұрын

    @@westmeadowrabbits Haha no worries (newbie here) Does one grow larger? Or any other differences?

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    @@darrent3869 Females are typically bigger when mature, but you are going to be processing around 8-12 weeks, and they will be the same size. If you're just starting be sure to check out the other videos on the channel. They will answer a lot of questions you might have!

  • @darrent3869

    @darrent3869

    3 ай бұрын

    @@westmeadowrabbits I appreciate the reply! Will definitely subscribe.

  • @Depsay5566
    @Depsay5566Ай бұрын

    Protein poisoning?? Lie. I do 1 gram of protein per pound plus 20-50 extra grams.

  • @dannyduran4270
    @dannyduran42703 ай бұрын

    bunnies are cute. I do not think I could kill one to eat! If it was my son or the bunny The bunny would lose.

  • @veen88
    @veen884 ай бұрын

    Can we feed Azolla☘️ to rabbits 🐇

  • @veen88

    @veen88

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@dieterfritz6115thanks

  • @HumansAreCarnivoresNotCows
    @HumansAreCarnivoresNotCows3 ай бұрын

    Yup no such thing as protein poisoning, people can only die from eating only LOW FAT meat and BTW carbohydrates aren't a nutrient. Also the carnivore diet is super easy once you overcome your glucose addiction. Good luck.

  • @exelibrium
    @exelibrium3 ай бұрын

    "If rabbits become obese, they won't breed" Much like humans then :P

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    3 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @Barisdagame
    @Barisdagame3 ай бұрын

    Add eggs boom

  • @flockwitaglock2139
    @flockwitaglock2139Ай бұрын

    Why not have both? 😂

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    Ай бұрын

    It's great to keep chickens for eggs, but they aren't worth it for meat!

  • @TB-ki1ux
    @TB-ki1ux4 ай бұрын

    ThumbUp& DropComment 4AIgosAll

  • @webmastercaribou7570
    @webmastercaribou75704 ай бұрын

    Acorns???

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    4 ай бұрын

    Or any other nut.

  • @jodaniel1633
    @jodaniel16333 ай бұрын

    👏 'promosm'

  • @diablominero
    @diablominero3 ай бұрын

    Protein poisoning is closely related to the Protein-Sparing Modified Fast diet. In both conditions you get the bulk of your energy from your body fat but eat enough protein to keep your muscles from breaking down. So I could imagine someone trying to adjust the PSMF protocol to be more comfortable might end up with non-fatal symptoms of protein poisoning (this might concievably happen to fad diet enthusiasts or to bodybuilders trying to cut weight for a show). And since the symptoms are kinda nonspecific and people radically changing their diets will expect to feel a bit sick, if it happened it probably wouldn't get documented.

  • @DrHow-dw2dd
    @DrHow-dw2dd8 күн бұрын

    Wtf you're saying you're not going to survive an Apocalypse? There's been many apocalypses and survivors

  • @westmeadowrabbits

    @westmeadowrabbits

    7 күн бұрын

    I would define an Apocalypse as a disaster event that wipes out greater than 50% of the population. The only kinds of events that would do that in the modern world would be beyond extreme, things like total nuclear war , bioengineerd viruses, or an asteroid the size of what took out the dinosaurs. In that kind of situation, most, if not all of humanity will be killed. Mathematically your odds of surviving something like that are next to zero, regardless of your preparations.

  • @michelleslutpuppy4355
    @michelleslutpuppy43552 ай бұрын

    Where are at the state