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[heyvictor]

Most of the references I've ever seen to this rabbit starvation were about people in the north subsisting on snowshoe hares during times of scarce game.
I used to snare them a lot so I've eaten tons of snowshoe hares and they are about the leanest animal you can possibly imagine.  Not like a domestic rabbit at all. They have no body fat.  I guess they stay warm purely through metabolizing food. Their skin is about as thick as toilet paper, their fur is ok but not really great.
They do have a brain which would have some fat and I have read that Native people in the north ate the stomach contents with the meat. Suppposedly this provides enzymes which would help us to get the most out of the meat.

[Sandwalker]

I don't really like hare meat for that reason. They are much too lean to make it worthwhile. I much prefer bird meat or some other type of fatty meat, birds seem to have more fat content every time, If I have to eat lean meat I prefer pigeon or dove over hares when I have a choice.  All the hares I have eaten have been extremely lean and it seems like I expended more calories in the hunting/setting up snares than I obtained in eating their fat-less meat.

I have read those stories by Calvin Rutstrum and others about the old-time trappers living off lard/butter and lean hare meat when they couldn't obtain any fat meat but I wouldn't eat that as a staple unless I had to.