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A Passion For Rabbit Meat

Norman Kump has a passion for rabbit meat. Give him a chance and he'll tell you all about the benefits of bunny. It's lean, it's affordable, it's grown locally. And the Jerome rabbit processor hopes to introduce more Idahoans to the product. Kump grew rabbits when his children were small, but the family abandoned the practice when they moved to Arizona. When they relocated to Jerome two years ago, they took up rabbits again. At the time, Kump couldn't find many other rabbit growers or processors, so he built his own rabbit enclosure and went through the steps to get certified. Rabbit meat is non-amendable - or wild - so the meat itself doesn't have to be inspected/Melissa Davlin, Twin Falls Times-News. More here. (AP Photo/Times-News/Ashley Smith: Norman Kump holds one of his rabbits at his farm and meat-processing kitchen north of Jerome.)

Question: Have you ever eaten rabbit? Would you? How does it taste?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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