Answer:
This orange vegetable is a favorite of Bugs Bunny
High fat reward for making it through another solar cycle
Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside.
The leaves are on the fruit, the fruit on the leaves. What is it?
If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?
By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found. Yet I am undone, if there's no light around