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Originally Posted by cashman

was just talking with the boss while she was making dinner today and both of us were saying we used to have rabbit at our nans when young,and what occured to me was- i can never remember rabbit being on the menu at any cafe/restruant,etc as far back as i can remember, does anyone know of any that used to have it- or have it now? also if as i suspect none did why?

Myxomatosis is a great reason for not eating Rabbit.
Originally, myxomatosis was imported from brazil (where it was first discovered in the 1930's) to Australia in 1950. This was control the massive populations of rabbits in that subcontinent.
How did the disease get to Britian?
The disease was transmitted from Australia by French Physician, Dr A Delille, who wished to control the rabbit population on his country estate near Paris. The disease rapidly spread into the wild population in france and then was brought, entirely by accident, from France in 1953. there is no evidence that the disease was intentionally brought into Britain but there is no doubt that some farmers moved the disease around using diseased rabbits to contro the population of the rabbits locally.