Could You Slit a Rabbit's Throat and Eat Its Eyeballs?

[c.d.]

I just watched a program on the U.S. Marine's Survival School. The Marines in the course were taken up into the mountains in winter time. Prior to that they had to spend time back at the base with rabbits that were kept in cages. While the recruits hiked up the mountain a truck carried up the rabbits and the cages. One of the first thing the recruits had to do was slit the rabbits' throats and then pull out their eyeballs and eat them. I guess they are supposed to be very nutritious. It was rough going but damned if they all didn't do it.

The point was hammered home. In a survival situation you do what you have to do to stay alive.

c.d.

[RivkahChaya]

One more reason not to be a marine.

[caz]

Hi c.d.,

At least we know for a fact that if you find a rabbit with its throat slit but eyeballs intact, it could not have been done by the same person who just slit ten rabbits' throats and eaten twenty eyeballs.

Love,

Caz
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[Chris]

I just watched a program on the U.S. Marine's Survival School. The Marines in the course were taken up into the mountains in winter time. Prior to that they had to spend time back at the base with rabbits that were kept in cages. While the recruits hiked up the mountain a truck carried up the rabbits and the cages. One of the first thing the recruits had to do was slit the rabbits' throats and then pull out their eyeballs and eat them.

Was there a vegetarian alternative?

[Robert]

When I saw the thread title I thought 'Oh no! Is The Generation Game back again?'

[Phil Carter]

Hi c.d.,

At least we know for a fact that if you find a rabbit with its throat slit but eyeballs intact, it could not have been done by the same person who just slit ten rabbits' throats and eaten twenty eyeballs.

Love,

Caz
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Especially if all 20 were done on the same night, in a different way...

Sounds like the whole batallion were out practising....





Phil

[Semper_Eadem]

Could You Slit a Rabbit's Throat and Eat Its Eyeballs? No. If my survival depended upon it and I was starving, I would probably jerry-rig a box trap or lasso trap. It would probably take me a while too as rabbits have been designed by nature to be hard to catch.

having caught the rabbit I would bash its head in with a rock. I hate knives. I don't find slitting throats real merciful either. If I had to use a knife I would use it to go under the chin straight to the brain or attack the spinal column in the back of the neck. I would then try to skin it. If I didn't have a knife I would use a sharp edged rock. I probably wouldn't cook it with a fire if I was trying to keep a low profile for some reason or other. I'd eat it like I was chicken starting with the legs. If I was on a time line I would use a bow and arrow and try something smaller then a rabbit.

[RivkahChaya]

Was there a vegetarian alternative?

From what I know of the military, this would be either a voluntary course (but there'd probably be a financial motive, or promotion points), or something an elite corps was doing, the corps being voluntary even for people already in the marines.

Also, if you had a religious objection to eating rabbit, they'd give you something else to eat, but you'd still have to kill the rabbit for the training.

FWIW, in Judaism, you wouldn't be permitted to eat a non-kosher animal under these circumstances, but you would under genuine survival circumstances. Whether it's OK to kill a rabbit for training, I'd say consult your rabbi.

I'm gong to go out on a limb, though, and suggest that anyone who is a marine in the first place, and the member of an elite corps in the second place, is not especially observant.

My husband was in the regular US Army, stationed in Iraq in 2005, and never had trouble getting vegetarian food.

[c.d.]

Yes, Rivkah, you are correct. This was voluntary training.

c.d.

[RivkahChaya]

I don't know that much about the marines, but I know in the Army, there's a survivalist training, albeit, I don't think it's this severe, that is part or the training to become an officer if you are enlisted, or to advance past a certain point in NCO promotion (IIRC staff SGT, or what you need to be to be a drill SGT). It doesn't require killing any animals. The training is required for some types of voluntary deployment to places that qualify you for hardship pay.

I know a woman who wanted to have a second child, and be a stay-at-home mom. She was in a Nat'l Guard unit that had not gotten called up, put was hit up for volunteers for another unit that got called up and wasn't 100% deployable. She volunteered, and got a $5,000 volunteer bonus, then took the hardship training, plus airborne, for another $10,000, and was getting the basic hardship pay because she was in a combat zone, and her family got housing and quarters, and better insurance than they had through her husband.

When she got back, the bonuses, plus that money her husband had saved came to about $20,000, and she had three months vacation to pay out when she got back. While they were. Trying to get pregnant, she volunteered for as many schools as she could, and advance from a Specialist (one rank below buck sergeant) to staff sergeant, so her pay for her drills (nat'l guard weekends) almost doubled.

Buy the time she got pregnant, she had more in the bank that what her old job paid her in a year.

DH and I didn't manage to plan that well. When he would have had a chance to go to lots of schools and training, we had a really little baby. I didn't want to be a long with him especially in our house, with well water that went out a lot, was out in the boondocks, and we only had one cat, and DH didn't was to miss his son's babyhood.

[DVV]

Hi Rivkah

One more reason not to be a marine.

One more reason not to be a rabbit.

[The Good Michael]

I would sit down with the rabbit and talk about life with it and how religion has created massive rifts between people so that everyone is constantly at each others' throats. I would explain how polarized people are; so polarized that in America a simple gun check law cannot be passed because, as they admitted, republicans don't want to seem in agreement with Obama. I would discuss irreversible damage done to our world that so many ignore, and even more don't want to believe because it may affect their overindulgent lives. Soon the rabbit would go into a contemplative mood and then take its own life. I'd then ask a a marine for $20 for the carcass, cuz I'm a capitalist and I ain't eating that crap.

Mike

[DVV]

Atheists do kill, Mike.
Don't lie to the rabbit.

[TomTomKent]

Atheists do kill, Mike.

I'm sure some do, but I have never met Mike... Baddum tsh!

[The Good Michael]

I'm sure some do, but I have never met Mike... Baddum tsh!

Hey, I'm no atheist. I just think religion has done nothing positive for the world in general. So I'm against it.

Mike