Posted on 01/10/2007 9:39:06 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Monster Bunnies For North Korea
By David Crossland
An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country. Now journalists and rabbit gourmets from around the world are thumping at his door.
It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram "German Gray Giant" called Robert, in February 2006.
Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people "struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients."
Szmolinsky, 67, from the eastern town of Eberswalde near Berlin, recalls how the North Korean embassy approached his regional breeding federation and enquired whether it might be willing to sell some rabbits to set up a breeding farm in North Korea. He was the natural choice for the job.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
 Rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky shows off one of his bunnies, a "German Grey Giant", weighing almost nine kilogrammes. |
 Grappling with a monster. One of these rabbits can easily feed eight people. |
 Szmolinsky came to the Koreans' attention after winning a breeders' award last year. |
 Szmolinsky with a German Gray Giant (L) and a Vienna Blue, half the weight of the former but still a pretty big rabbit. |
Ping!
commie bastards
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Yeah, but what are they going to feed the rabbits?
OMG Poor bunny he going be dinner for CHIA PET
Soylent Green
"Soylent Green"
And Jimmah Cartah
If all a person eats is rabbits, then they starve.Thats a fact.But don't tell the North Koreans that. We need them hopping up and down so their rifle aim will be bad.
That sure is one big hopper. Sorta cute, but imagine a couple of thousand on 3 arcres of land. This photo would scare Australian sheep ranchers to death.
But bunnies eat grass. That's the people's food!
I remember hearing something about that too, it had something to do with an improper balance of fats and proteins?
Dust Bowlers were forced to begin an extermination campaign.
Almost every Sunday people gathered to take part in rabbit drives.
J.R.Davison: When we first came over the -- the hill there on this one drive, there were big line of us. Just looked like the country below us just just all began to move. Looked like a herd of sheep, but it was jackrabbits.
The first rabbit drive that I ever witnessed was with shotguns, but that was kind of dangerous, so then they decided later that they'd have some more of these rabbit drives, and we'd just use clubs.
So they would form lines of people, and these lines of people would march down through that country and come together, and funnel these rabbits into those pens, and any that tried to get back by you, which would be a lot of `em, why you were supposed to knock them in the head with the club as they came by.
And then after they got them all in these pens, why, the young fellows would get in those pens with these clubs, which was like an old axe handle or something like this, and -- and just club them to death. I can imagine, you know, what the Humane Society would say about that now. Whew.
Margie Daniels: You could hear the rabbits screaming you know. That's what was scary to me. I think that sound affected everyone. I know it sounded terrible to me as a little girl. And you know I'd think sounds like a baby cryin' or squealin', or, you know, being hurt. It was really sad.
And then this dirt storm was coming in at that time. And it was starting to get dark. And you know, some people felt that was the wrath of God coming upon them when they'd kill these rabbits like this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/filmmore/transcript/transcript1.html
In the Canadian North, trappers who had been caught short on winter supplies tried to survive by eating the only meat they could get: Rabbit. Many of them died, because the meat has a very narrow window of nutrition. It does not provide enough to keep a person from starving, even if they eat vegetables with it. You need fish to go along with rabbit if starvation is to be prevented. But deer and moose meat , thats the ticket!
Good post!
Don't let Jimmy Carter know, he'll faint.
Yeah - too little fat as I recall. Also seemed that eating the bones helped with that.
Hmmm... take one of these rabbits, lob off its ears, shave its fur, have it age three decades, then you get Jimmah Catah.
an OMG bump
Big kitty loves big bunnies. Yum yum.
These bunnies look none too happy to be in their present situation. Wait until they get loose, multiply into gazillions of bunnies in a week, and eat up all vegetation available. Then they're really going to be mad, and what, or who, will be next? Jimmy's worst nightmare, indeed.
Not kosher.
I had a Vienna blue and he was huge... I'd like to see my rabbit-catching cat try to size up this Octoberfest beast for a laugh.
...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this, Thy hand grenade, that with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits... in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [Whereupon the friar is urged, "skip ahead a bit, brother"]... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Amen.
This is what happens in centralized governments where only few or just a one person takes decisions. Only the top elite has internet access, some of them has seen these pictures, realised that rabbits eat grass and thought it a good idea.
But in contrast to someone starting a company in a free market growing rabbid meat where the company is taking the risk of producing it in economical ways and if it is not possible the only thing to go down is the company, in a communistic country they are in fact risking the whole country.
Before we in my country began liberalising our market the government thought it had found the solution for the farmers and small villages in the countryside. Once the solution was breeding minks and everyone started, with easy loans from the government to breed minks. Once it was breeding of fishes, but in both instances there was of course a huge overinvestment, prices dropped and eventually the industries collapsed. It is first now, many decades later that some of the more resilient companies that started then, or some companies that bought the overinvested assets cheaply later are managing to make something out of it.
The lesson is of course that centralised planning depends on a single or very few men beeing wise enough to take the right decisions. But in a free market the decision process is de-centralised so those that make the right decision in the market are rewarded by the markets invincible hand, but those that take the wrong decisions don´t fare well in the market.
I seriously doupt that some top level generals or even a conductor of elaborate shows (as in Kim himself), are the best to take decisions about how to feed the nation.
I wonder if one day maybe hords of giant rabbids will start flowing into the de-militirized zone one day and clearing landmine fields.
This may be another manifestation of Chia Head's so-called "genius.":-)
Night of the Lepus
I love rabbit stew I cook it including the bones so that I get all goodness and serve with suet dumplings so I think I get the required amount of fat from the mean even so would not want to eat it all the time.
Now and then it is a tasty warming winter meal - that reminds me must tap up my sources for a couple of rabbits
Or eat ONE!
What they really need for eating is giant Chows. Duh!
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