SALEM — A bill meant to reduce barriers for small-scale rabbit meat production has also sparked a proposal to expand Oregon’s humane slaughter law. On-farm slaughter of 1,000 rabbits a year would be ...

Daniela Larese is a farmer in Ashford. With her partner Nick Weinstock, their 41-acre BOTL Farm raises and sells pasture-raised pork, lamb, chicken and goat meat, as well as eggs, raw honey, ...

A pair of bills in Connecticut could make it easier for small farmers there to raise and slaughter rabbits and sell their meat. One, a standalone bill, would allow farmers to slaughter, process, and ...

Should rabbits in Connecticut be raised only as house pets, or possibly also for stews and other meals? A proposal to allow harvesting rabbits for food, an idea loved by farmers but hated by animal ...

Up to 1,000 rabbits per year could be slaughtered on-farm without an Oregon meat processing license under a bill that would expand an existing poultry exemption. House Bill 2689 would allow the rabbit ...

From 1975: A long-dormant industry in the Inland Northwest was bouncing back: the rabbit industry. Rabbit industry? Yes, a new rabbit processing plant was butchering and packaging 300 to 500 rabbits ...