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Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea

Posted by kdawson on from the mmm-thumper dept.

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.)

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  1. Help the poor North Koreans? by argoff · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If he thinks that he is going to help the poor starving North Koreans, he will probably be in for the shock of his life. It will probably be for the rich ruling class, or even worse the elite may suffer from poor aim when they go out hunting rabits for sport.

    If Korea is really concerned about starvation, they should look at their neighbor China. China went from a disaster of 10's of millions of starving people to total solution almost immediately. How did they do it? They let the farmers have private property rights.

  2. Re:May I be the first to say... by drgonzo59 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Having grown in Soviet Union, I'll attest to the fact. No matter how many resources the government will have, no matter how much the technology progresses, it will all get mis-managed, wasted and funneled into militarization. The price of the human life is very low.

    But I gotta give them credit, at least they got the right idea about how to properly run a communist country -- fear! Stalin style (yeah, I like the alliteration, just came up with it!) People will obey when they see their neighbors in the evening and by morning the secret police have taken them away because someone made up a lie about them being "enemies of the people." I am not making this up, this happened to families I knew personally, this is how things are in NK.

  3. Brilliant ! by Joebert · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea

    In the future, they'll be able to reuse 97% of that headline.

    Giant Rabbits Feed On North Korea
    --
    Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
  4. Re:May I be the first to say... by darjen · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Such comments are really nothing but an insult to people who actually did live in Communist Russia. I know some of them, myself, and likening the United States to Soviet Russia is such a laughable comparison that you should be ashamed. Many of these people used basically all the money they had to move to countries like the US.
    I think the point is that, sadly enough, people in America really aren't as free as they are led to believe. I tend to agree. This is not an insult to anyone who sacrificed to come here. They wanted to be in a more relatively free country. But unfortunately, the US is becoming more and more like the situation they tried to leave. Having the right to oppose the government, though it might be an improvement, still doesn't mean too much if you are forced to fund them.
  5. Re:May I be the first to say... by toddhisattva · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The people are in Guantanamo because America is great.

    If we were not such a bunch of great people, they would be dead.

    We don't need to take prisoners. Shoot 'em in the field! No muss, no fuss, no fourth estate or fifth column parading them around as innocents.

    But we took prisoners, and for this we are hated.