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A colourful can of rabbit meat destined for London

A man driving a two horse carriage lined with rabbit carcasses in black and white

"If you talk to people these days, the perception is that the rabbit trade was a sort of a sideline during the depression. But it was much, much more than that."

black and white photo of canned rabbit being loaded onto ship from jetty

"It directly employed 14 people and exported 800,000 cans of rabbit and 10 tonnes of canned lobster and canned mutton to London."
cans of rabbit inside storage at the Compton rabbit cannery in black and white

rabbit carcasses hang from horse drawn carriage for processing at local cannery in black and white

"They obviously didn't have used by dates."

a black and white image of rabbit carcasses in a canning factory

"Some people saw them as an environmental disaster and wanted to exterminate them all, but other people saw them as an economic opportunity and wanted to exploit them for commercial gain,"
she said.
a train is loaded with canned rabbit bound for the export market black and white

a woman with short grey hair smiles into camera with white shirt

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