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Venezuela's new plan to beat hunger: Breed rabbits
Reuters ^ | September 14, 2017 | Reuters Staff

Posted on 09/14/2017 11:09:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CARACAS - Venezuela’s government this week urged citizens to see rabbits as more than “cute pets” as it defended a plan to breed and eat them even as the opposition says this would do nothing to end chronic food shortages.

The “Rabbit Plan” is an effort by the government of President Nicolas Maduro to boost food availability. Authorities have also taught citizens to plant food on roofs and balconies of their homes.

Maduro’s adversaries dismiss such ideas as nonsensical, insisting the real problem is a failed model of oil-financed socialism that was unable to survive after crude markets collapsed.

The country’s constant shortages, resulting from stringent price and currency controls, would probably leave the would-be rabbit industry struggling to find materials ranging from feed to metal and wire for breeding cages.

Maduro says the country is a victim of an “economic war” led by adversaries and fueled by recent sanctions imposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; marxism; prepper; preppers; rabbits; socialism
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1 posted on 09/14/2017 11:09:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And what will they feed the rabbits? Socialist hero medals?


2 posted on 09/14/2017 11:10:35 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 09/14/2017 11:12:47 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
🐰🐇. They are more than welcome to visit my place and trap fuzzy widdle bunnies. Just not my slippers. 👹
4 posted on 09/14/2017 11:13:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess the next step is cannibalism in Venezuela.

All American professors should be required to spend a year in Venezuela.


5 posted on 09/14/2017 11:13:33 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Eating a lot of rabbit meat can make you ill or kill you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning


6 posted on 09/14/2017 11:14:24 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell me about the rabbits.


7 posted on 09/14/2017 11:14:24 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Well, two guys could stay alive by eating each other’s right leg.

Or the left one.


8 posted on 09/14/2017 11:16:49 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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Rabbit is not kosher.
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9 posted on 09/14/2017 11:17:21 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: blueunicorn6
I guess the next step is cannibalism in Venezuela.

The sad and scary part is that it may already be happening but nobody wants to confirm that story....

10 posted on 09/14/2017 11:17:50 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No bread? Eat cake!


11 posted on 09/14/2017 11:19:13 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I believe Australia tried this back around 1900, with disasterous results ...
12 posted on 09/14/2017 11:22:22 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ltc8k6

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Its not particularly often that Wiki has something right, but this time is one.

Animal fat is absolutely essential for humans.


13 posted on 09/14/2017 11:23:08 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WHY RABBIT MEAT IS NOT THE BEST SURVIVAL FOOD

http://thewannabehomesteader.com/why-rabbit-meat-is-not-the-best-survival-food/

Turns out rabbit meat is so lean that if a person ate it exclusively they could develop something called “fat-hunger” also known as “rabbit starvation.”

14 posted on 09/14/2017 11:24:26 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> Breed rabbits <

Soon to be followed by price controls on rabbit meat.


15 posted on 09/14/2017 11:26:17 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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How about the citizens feast on the bodies of dictators?


16 posted on 09/14/2017 11:28:13 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, another communist thought it was a good idea to grow corn in the Soviet Union for a staple crop. He was exhiled for his “hare-brained” schemes. Venezuela is just taking the hare-brained part to a new level.


17 posted on 09/14/2017 11:29:57 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Those that do not know history....are doomed to repeat it.

Not Photoshopped. This is Szmolinsy with one of the giant rabbits that captured Kim Jong-Il's heart... and eventually found its way into his birthday dinner.

So Kim gets in touch with 68-year-old Karl Szmolinsky of Berlin, the world's foremost breeder of giant rabbits, and says he wants Szmolinsky to come to Pyongyang and set up a farm to breed these rabbits. For Kim believes that the meat yielded by these rabbits will end his people's starvation.

Szmolinsky tells Kim this is, quite frankly, the dumbest idea possible. These rabbits only yield about 15 pounds of meat... and they have huge appetites... so they eat way more than that in carrots, potatoes and other vegetables. If anything, breeding giant rabbits would make the North Korea hunger situation even worse.

Undeterred, Kim pays for 12 rabbits, at a cost of about $115 each. He tells Szmolinsky that the rabbits will be kept at a petting zoo in Pyongyang and, in a few months, Szmolinsky will be flown in to help really set up a farm for breeding.

In February of 2007, about five or six months later, Szmolinsky gets a call from a North Korean official canceling that trip. Why? Because, Szmolinsky believes,

Kim couldn't resist... and ate the giant rabbits to celebrate his birthday.

18 posted on 09/14/2017 11:31:11 AM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not a bad idea, domestically raised wabbits are good food.

They grow mature relatively fast and reproduce.

But what about the food to feed the wabbits?


19 posted on 09/14/2017 11:32:20 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Message to Trump : I am not tired of winning yet. Please more winning ! Get your crap together fast!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ping.


20 posted on 09/14/2017 11:34:52 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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