Historically speaking, why are rabbits always depicted eating

In the 1800's America they were called Buniggers and a carrot to them was like watermelon to niggers.

Possibly from the australian rabbit infratation. Maybe they trashed those carrot gardens pretty bad. No idea though.

>>3163755
Infestation*

>>3163751
Literally it's from Bugs Bunny cartoons. I'm blanking on the name, but the voice actor would chew carrots to get that teeth smacking thing he does before asking "What's up doc?", and so they decided Bugs should be eating carrots too, and then it just snowballed.

>>3163751
Rabbits actually like carrots.

bugs.. easy on the carrots

>>3163960
Mel Blanc

>>3163960
It's a reference to a Clark gable flick

If i see that fucking rabbit one more time

>>3163960
No, it's from It Happened One Night. Clark Gable's character chewed them that way in front of Claudette Colbert.

>>3163751
Name a more useless animal than the rabbit

Srsly wtf is its purpose?

>>3166108
food chain boyo
prey animal for higher order carnivores

>>3166108
source of protein, pets.

>>3166108
>Name a more useless animal than the rabbit
The Mosquito.

>>3166158
Male mosquitos pollinate.

>>3166108
Ticks

Bugs.. Easy on the carrots.

>>3164029
>>3166960
>>/sp/

EASY BIG FELLA

>>3166108
to be cute :3

from cartoons I imagine

>>3163751
For a vegetable, carrots have quite a bit of sugar. And rabbits love sugar

>>3166933
other insects do that to, mosquitos do not contribute any significant or unique things to the ecosystem

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>>3163754
First post so this is now the official explanation.

>>3166933
They aren't specially adapted to pollinate local flora in the same way our bee, moth, bat and butterfly friends are. Mosquitos are a horrible plague and need to be eradicated globally except maybe in Alaska.

>>3166108
They turn ruffage into meat for the benefit of meat eating animals.

>>3163751
Rabbits have a tendency to pull up tubers and roots in the wild, and so stealing the huge and delicious roots people grow in their gardens isn't too much of a stretch once they figure it out.

>>3166108
Being eaten by humans.

>>3163960
>I'm blanking on the name
i see what you did there (and i liked it)

>>3167999
too much sugar, they're actually not healthy for rabbits who should be eating vegetables like lettus

>>3163754
why do you people shoehorn racism into everything

>>3168336
Jungle bunny detected

>>3168396
I'm not a nigger and I hate racism.

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>>3163960
>I'm blanking on the name

>>3168284
>except maybe in Alaska.
Why curse the Alaskans to keep mosquitoes?

>>3168418
Fuck off, nigger.

>>3168336
issa joke

>>3168336
b8

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>>3166108
Harbinger of Destruction (of echo system)

Bugs...

>>3169289
Lmao, they even buildt a Great Wall to stop rabbits. Dumb australians.