One of those long car trip discussions led to the following question:

"Are you better off to avoid eating rabbit in a survival situation?"

You would inevitably die of malnutrition on a diet solely consisting of rabbit meat, but would it be useful in a short-term survival situation? It would certainly help with morale, but would the body waste so much energy with digestion that you would be best to avoid it?

I've heard suggestions that the bone marrow and brains might be better than nothing, and if you had some form of fat in which to cook the rabbit it could make it okay (a good reason for having a tallow candle), but nothing convincing either way when it comes to eating just the rabbit.


Does anyone know for certain whether a person could derrive any worthwhile energy from eating rabbit over the short term?