S. Korea: Pastor aims to send rabbits to feed North Koreans(1.2 million rabbits)

Reuters ^ | 06/29/05

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[JohnLongIsland]

rabbits like humans need food, if the humans in north korea can't find it where will the rabbits?
this sounds like another scheme from the ted kennedy school of business

[KarlInOhio]

rabbits like humans need food, if the humans in north korea can't find it where will the rabbits?

They are being shipped with pancakes.

[JohnLongIsland]

i hope they get real maple syrup, not imitation

[Little Ray]

Rabbits can eat grass and derive nourishment from it, unlike people. As long as there is enough grass, the rabbits will do fine.
However, the North Koreans will probably execute them as spies...

[magslinger]

rabbits like humans need food, if the humans in north korea can't find it where will the rabbits?

Rabbits eat a lot of things that humans can't or won't and turn it into usable protein. The real problem is that the bunnies will likely end up butchered and served to North Korea's army, and the starving masses won't see a one.

[Revelation 911]

rabbits like humans need food, if the humans in north korea can't find it where will the rabbits? this sounds like another scheme from the ted kennedy school of business

I'd applaud the idea if it werent for the fact Kim seems intent on cloistering his people to death

BTW - rabbits will eat straw, grasses & weeds.... things we consider non edible -

[JohnLongIsland]

the grass left north korea a long time ago

[freebird5850]

I read that if a person were to only eat rabbit they would starve. Somehow it takes (human) body fat to digest the rabbit meat because it is so lean.

[Onelifetogive]

Cho said he thought about how he could help alleviate food shortages in the North...

Food shortages are caused by a lack of freedom and a lack of rule of law. With freedom and rule of law, people grow plenty of food for themselves.

[ghitma]

Great, feed the people who want to destroy you.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Kim Jong il may disallow it in the end. He may figure too many people eating too many rabbits near the Chinese border, might cause a spring in their steps, and they may just be able to hop hop hop right over the barbed wire and out of the People's Heaven on Earth (sic).

[magslinger]

I actually admire Pastor Cho, he has a well thought out program that would allow the people to help themselves out of starvation. He just doesn't seem to realize that NK is an evil regime with an evil leader who does not care how many people die to further his cause.

[Uncle Jaque]

I used to hunt rabbits years ago, and remember that we had to wear gloves and be really careful cleaning and preparing them for the pot.

It seems that they can carry some really wicked disease - "Tularemia" or something like that, IIRC, which is a particularly nasty, and potentially fatal, pathinogen.

Much like salmonilla in chicken, cooking seems to kill it off all right, but contact with the raw meat or tissue can be hazzardous.

If anyone in NK gets a dose of it, even if it's accidental, I have no doubt that they'll make a major accusitory hullabaloo about "Biological Warfare" being perpetrated by the donors.

Weren't rabbits introduced to Australia years ago for about the same reason? And didnt' they essentially take the place over, eating all the crops and vegitation in sight, nearly causing the famine that they were supposed to prevent?

These well - meaning evangalists in the ROK (anything to do with the "Moonies", BTW?) might want to check with the Auzzies before investing too much in this charity.

Of course then again... maybe they already have. };^{)~

[BJClinton]

...send rabbits to feed North Koreans(1.2 million rabbits)

[chuknospam]

Some on the millons of Nutria from Louisiana wouldn't be missed either.

[Little Ray]

The rabbits were a disaster in Australia - there are thousands of contiguous miles of "rabbit-proof" fence attempting to keep them out of areas that they have not already infested.

Dunno about the disease, though. Wouldn't surprise me. But is that an issue in farm raised rabbit? In any case, it is a nice, but futile, gesture.

[stuartcr]

Yeah, it would be better to just starve all the women and children....

[RicocheT]

Right, the rabbits will eat the grass and tree bark that most rural N. Koreans need for food. Meanwhile, dear leader Kim Jr. has a weight problem from too much rich food.