Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea 421
iamdrscience writes with news of an East German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs. Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, at 23 lbs., in 2006. News photos reached the North Koreans, who asked through their embassy whether Szmolinsky would be willing to sell them some as foodstocks — each rabbit yields about 15 lb. of meat. A deal was struck and Szmolinsky will be traveling to North Korea in April to help them set up a breeding program. (The photos in the article use the most extreme, contrived camera angles to make the rabbits look even more huge.)
Rabbit Starvation (Score:5, Informative)
Giant bunnies vs. Just get rid of Kim! (Score:5, Informative)
Large empty streets, every foreigner is followed by an assigned guide. If a tourist as much as takes a digital photo of one of their leader's statues that is off center or has the head cut-off they are forced to retake the picture. There are stories of children being used to help harvest poppies for heroin production after they get off school. Everything is a show, they use all of their funds to build their military while hundreds of thousands are starving. Their leader is crazy and he has nukes. Iraq was a kindergarten compared to NK. Until the crazy dictators are ruling the country no amount of giant fluffy (and yummy) bunnies will save the people from starvation...
Long term effects? (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Giant bunnies vs. Just get rid of Kim! (Score:5, Informative)
A regime that would rather see the misery of all it's citizens than reunifying under the leadership of the south.
Re:Rabbit Starvation (Score:1, Informative)
Lean meat is a good thing for Westerners who have a very high fat intake. And genetic modification has little to do with it - most stock are bred conventionally for desirable traits like this (they just use genetic screening to facilitate the breeding to make it as efficient as possible).
Admittedly, most of the move towards "lean meat" is for economic and "fashion" reasons though. Substituting lean meat for normal meat really doesn't make a huge difference in most diets, and we'd all be better off just increasing fruit and vegetable intake
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:0, Informative)
Re:You got it the wrong way (Score:4, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_
Do not blame an ideology for the people who believes in it.
Re:May I be the first to say... (Score:4, Informative)
OK if North Korea could afford to feed the rabbits, it seems likely they could afford to feed the people
Boy that sounds like people food to me, if I were breeding food rabbits they'd be bred for max production eating things like hay, alfalfa, clover and maybe throw in some field corn and soybeans on occassion; but that's not what's going to happen here, they are going to starve people to free up food for rabbits to feed the starving people, pathetic.