Health and safety – If you intend to sell meat, it must be slaughtered at a licenced slaughter house. You can slaughter yourself if only you will eat it.
People buy and feed raw to their dogs. So does the rules to apply if I raise rabbits for meat and sell some meat to dog owners that raw feed??
(posted this in the dog section as well, in case any raw feeders know the answer)
And for the other people – I raise them as meat for myself and my dogs.
I believe so, because you are still slaughtering meat and selling to other people. If you can find a way to slap a "not for human consumption" label onto it you might be able to get away with it. I believe, however, that such laws exist for sanitary purposes that have more to do with people’s surroundings than the meat itself. Meat can be cooked, but disinfecting your garage after you skin and hang a deer is a little more difficult.
[Add] You can probably apply for some sort of license if you can demonstrate that you have an appropriate ability and facility to keep your slaughtering sanitary. Plenty of people can bake cookies out of their own home and sell them, with proper licensing or some such, it’s just not practical so they use commercial kitchens instead.
Why would you want to raise rabbits to feed to dogs?
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Not sure of the state you are in, but rabbits are raised for food in many states. People eat them and buy at the groceries.
One fellow tells me the QC at his dog food plant is higher than people food slaughter house. Law suit of a high breed blood line can cost them more than people death.
Call a dog food producer and ask.
good luck
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I believe so, because you are still slaughtering meat and selling to other people. If you can find a way to slap a "not for human consumption" label onto it you might be able to get away with it. I believe, however, that such laws exist for sanitary purposes that have more to do with people’s surroundings than the meat itself. Meat can be cooked, but disinfecting your garage after you skin and hang a deer is a little more difficult.
[Add] You can probably apply for some sort of license if you can demonstrate that you have an appropriate ability and facility to keep your slaughtering sanitary. Plenty of people can bake cookies out of their own home and sell them, with proper licensing or some such, it’s just not practical so they use commercial kitchens instead.
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I would not feed raw rabbit to a dog. Rabbits are prone to worms.
If you are going to feed you dog rabbit, than cook it, for your dogs safety.
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I think so… if there was a health issue with the meat that caused the dogs to become ill then you would be held responsible for that. I am not sure what licensing would do to help in this scenario but i imagine they would have health inspectors and insurance and lawyers all connected together incase something like this were to happen.
If you slaughter and eat it yourself or if your dogs eat it and get sick, the only legally liable person is you, and you can’t exactly sue yourself…
Also the issue of paying taxes on the meat you sell and i know jack sh*t about them, so i am just throwing that out there.
I am sure it goes on all the time and there is never any problems UNTIL something goes wrong and then all loyalty or ‘agreements’ go out the window it seems…
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