Posted by
Bullfrog on Friday, January 12, 2007 10:16:59 AM
The UK Times reports
that North Koreans will be eating. Forget "a chicken in every pot."
Hasenpfeffer, anyone? North Koreans will be eating super-bunny!Szmolinsky, from Eberswalde, in the east of Germany, was contacted by the North Korean Embassy
in Berlin in October after Robert attracted press coverage. “They want
to boost meat production. They’ve arranged for me to go to Pyongyang in April to advise them on setting up a breeding farm,” Szmolinsky, who is 68 next month, told The Times.
He
breeds German gray giants, which are among the world’s biggest rabbits,
and sells his annual crop of 60 to 80 to other breeders in Germany. He
said that an attaché at the embassy came to his home and asked to see
his rabbits. The diplomat was so impressed that he placed an order for
eight females and four males, which were shipped to North Korea a few weeks later.
There
are far worse things on which to dine than rabbit, but I don't think
the North Koreans ever considered how much kibble these rabbits
themselves require. What will the rabbits eat? PETA should be all over
this one like a bad rash.Robert was among the first
consignment. “I don’t know how many more they want and whether I’ll be
getting any more orders,” Szmolinsky said. He
has also received a request for rabbits from a Chinese buyer. He said
he believed that the monster bunny program — one rabbit yields 7kg
(15lb) of meat — was aimed at feeding the North Korean people rather
than the “Dear Leader”, Kim Jong Il, who is said to favor lobster.
That's
Robert the rabbit in the image link. Maybe the rabbits will be fed
lobster to fatten them up for the starving masses? Perhaps Kim could
let his countrymen wash it down with a swig of his French cognac. Way
to go, Kim. You da man! Once again, your megalomaniac pea-brain has
devised a brilliant plan.