Cameo you don't want to eat any during the summer or any warm seasons. The rabbits carry disease like all natural born outdoors animal. You want to wait for the first frost of the year or if that one isn't really that great, you want to wait for a good cold snap. Any diseases that the rabbit might have been carrying is all taken care of because the body warms itself up to keep warm and kills the diseases.
I have never eaten/made rabbit stew but my parents have and are always telling me little things that help along the way.