The rabbits are cooked. The biggest reason for the rabbit is to get people exposure to killing and preparing an animal - obviously, most people have gotten no closer to butchering an animal than a grocery store. Many couldn't being themselves to kill the rabbits - you keep it alive for a few days and some become attached. The risk of illness and injury is managed - you drink water without filters, eat animals you trap (we got squirrel), etc - but you don't eat raw wild animals. As he said, you do eat worms and insects, etc if the opportunity arises just to get past the food aversions. I had to go through a semi-arid survival school (Camp Bullis, San Antonio) where we had to eat handfulls of grubs knocked out of a dead tree, grasshoppers (cooked), ants (not cooked), cactus, and we had to eat the worm that was the bait if we didn't catch a fish with it (I didn't catch a fish).