Big kitty loves big bunnies. Yum yum.
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 ...
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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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