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Gotta eat. Hell, humans eat half those animals too.
Guinea pigs got domesticated for food, and are still a common dish in South America. I am pretty sure rabbits got bred for food as well in Europe
I've had rabbit a few times in Germany. Quite lean but not bad at all. It's not that common these days, you can easily avoid it but it's not hard to find either. There are many hobbyist breeders who sell their rabbits either alive or butchered. I think it's more common in Eastern Germany though because a lot of people there used to keep rabbits back when meat was rare and traded them with the government.
My grandfather tolled me, you could sell a living rabbit for butchering, go to the butcher to buy a dead rabbit and make a profit in the process.
Yup, they needed as much meat as they could get so they made it profitable. They didn't let people buy back everything though, one or two carcasses per person. Most people traded them in for chickens because that meant more food.