What does jackrabbit meat taste like?

Answer 1

Hard to describe. It's sort of like a cross between venison and pot roast. It's a bit gamy. Quite honestly it's meat and mammal meat all tastes pretty much the same. Flavor and tenderness will vary depending on time of year, where harvested, handling, diet, and preparation.

The problem with most game meat is that most hunters are ill equipped to butcher on site. That in itself can make or break any meat. If you've taken any chemistry or Biology classes, you are aware of the chemical processes that go on in the body of a dead mammal (or bird, or fish). The difference between between meat butchered on site and two days later at home is amazing. It's the same as with fish. Most people have never eaten a truly fresh fish unless they fried it up at the campsite or paid mega bucks at a fancy restaurant where dinner is still swimming in a tank till you order it.

Basically, how it tastes depends more on you than anything else. If you butcher the rabbit when you take it, You'll probably like it. If you just toss it in the back of the truck and try to eat it two days later, it'll taste like tree bark and Ajax cleaner stew.

Oh yeah, while it may seem gruesome, one of the best meat tenderizers is a stun gun. Stress, and being shot or trapped is incredibly stressful, causing lactic acid to build up in muscles. It's also what causes rigor mortis. Muscle movement burns off that lactic acid and produces more tender meat. Since dead animals are not particularly motile, a few good shocks will burn off the lactic acid.

Answer 2

It is a personal choice. Rabbit meat tastes much like chicken, but is richer and gamier in flavor.

Answer 3

Yes, you can eat rabbit many people do some people buy a rabbit and get it very fat so then they may eat it and some people also breed rabbits for their meat.