A "creative" solution to feeding the "really" hungry

[Kiouni]

A supersize 'solution' to a giant problem
David Crossland in Berlin


A German pensioner who won a prize and worldwide fame for breeding his country’s largest rabbit — Robert, a 10.5kg (23lb) bruiser the size of a dog — has been offered an unusual opportunity to exploit his talents overseas.
Karl Szmolinsky has been given a contract by North Korea to supply giant rabbits to help to boost meat production in the reclusive Communist country
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He has also received a request for rabbits from a Chinese buyer. He said he believed that the monster bunny programme — 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 favour lobster.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2543514,00.html

I love the pic of the bunny can someone post it for me.

[Jcrowley]

1. Harvey

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,383635,00.jpg

[CoffeeCat]

3. No way!!

I'm laughing so hard.

That can't be real!!!

[drm604]

6. That'd make a lot of hasenpfeffer! n/t

[NYC]

9. I can't believe that rabbit weighs only 23 lbs.

He's huge.

[johnaries]

10. OMG! "Night of the Lepus"!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/

[jgraz]

11. hahahahah -- Dumbest. Movie. Ever!

Giant Killer Bunnies!!! What idiot thought that up?

[johnaries]

17. Ya know, actually, the premise is not bad.....

taking a common, seemingly innocent thing and turning it into a thing of terror.

Hitchcock did that with showers. After the original PSYCHO came out, a lot of people were afraid to take showers for a long time.

Of course, it took Hitch's genius to make it work. Hitch knew how to "sell it".

If Hitch had directed it, people would still be afraid of rabbits. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't!

BTW, my parents used to raise rabbits, fried rabbit is every bit as good as fried chicken. rabbit salad sandwiches; possibly better than chicken salad! Baked rabbit - not as good as "skin-on" chicken, but just as good as skinless.

But the rabbit meat gets tougher as the rabbit gets older....

[jgraz]

18. I prefer squirrel

My grandpa used to feed us by hunting when I was a child. I think most of the meat I ate during the winter came from animals he killed himself. Rabbit was nice, but fried squirrel was the best.

Couldn't eat them today, though. They come up to my back door and beg for nuts...too cute.

[Blue_Tires]

15. ok....that shit creeps me out for some reason

and why do i look at that scientist and instantly think of elmer fudd?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. here ya go...

:wow:

[Kiouni]

4. thanks, I love it!

[bobbolink]

5. That's fine, but the problem isn't a lack of food...it's GREED at the top.

There is NO need for hunger anywhere in the world.

It's been shown over and over again.

It's fine to have giant rabbits (I guess--although it reminds me of the Harvey movie a bit too much hehehe), but hunger can be solved without giant rabbits, if we just want to do it.

Also... could I suggest, please, to change the language? We aren't "the hungry"-- we are PEOPLE, people who are hungry. "The hungry" takes our faces away, just like "the poor", "the homeless", etc. We are, first of all, people. People who are hungry, poor, homeless. Thanks.

[Kiouni]

8. I changed the title

I don't know if that fixes it. I was trying to be funny and obviously failed but I think there are now two types of hungry "you and me" and people that eat giant monster bunnies! these people must be really hungry.

[Sapphire Blue]

13. I must have lost my sense of humor, as I don't find anything 'funny' about hunger.

On second thought, I wouldn't want to have a sense of humor that allows me to laugh about hunger.

[Sapphire Blue]

12. Bonsai People

Muhammad Yunus
The Nobel Peace Prize 2006

Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006.

(excerpt)

We Can Put Poverty in the Museums

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social system that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

Poverty is created because we built our theoretical framework on assumptions which under-estimates human capacity, by designing concepts, which are too narrow (such as concept of business, credit- worthiness, entrepreneurship, employment) or developing institutions, which remain half-done (such as financial institutions, where poor are left out). Poverty is caused by the failure at the conceptual level, rather than any lack of capability on the part of people.

I firmly believe that we can create a poverty-free world if we collectively believe in it. In a poverty-free world, the only place you would be able to see poverty is in the poverty museums. When school children take a tour of the poverty museums, they would be horrified to see the misery and indignity that some human beings had to go through. They would blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition, which existed for so long, for so many people.

A human being is born into this world fully equipped not only to take care of him or herself, but also to contribute to enlarging the well being of the world as a whole. Some get the chance to explore their potential to some degree, but many others never get any opportunity, during their lifetime, to unwrap the wonderful gift they were born with. They die unexplored and the world remains deprived of their creativity, and their contribution.

Grameen has given me an unshakeable faith in the creativity of human beings. This has led me to believe that human beings are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty.

To me poor people are like bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a flower-pot, you get a replica of the tallest tree, only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted, only the soil-base that is too inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

Let us join hands to give every human being a fair chance to unleash their energy and creativity.


Continued @ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture-en.html

Video of the Nobel Lecture: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/yunus-lecture.html

[bobbolink]

16. Wonderful article! This deserves a thread of it's own!

Bonsai people---that is sooo perfect. It always humbles me when I read someone who has such a creative brain.

That is a great, if sad, image.

Thank you so much! :hug: :hi: :hug:

[Cobalt-60]

7. Careful

He's got a mean streak a mile wide!

[Mojorabbit]

14. I have two small regular bunnies

and they eat me out of house and home. I can't imagine his food bill.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. Potentially virtually nothing, I would think.

You presumably feed your rabbits specially-purchased food, but if they could graze instead then all you'd need would be a few fields.

The world is full of nutrients. Unfortunately, most of those are in forms like grass, which humans can't directly utilise. A giant rabit is essentially a device for converting those nutrients into human-edible form.

[Mojorabbit]

20. I feed them hay I buy

and greens I buy and/ or grow and a quarter cup of pellets a day. No way I could let them roam the yard. We have flea hatchings here in florida several times a year.

Rabbits eat more than just grass. They eat roots, weeds, young leaves, tree bark, etc. I do wildlife rehab and specialize in cottontails and marsh rabbits.
They do have certain nutritional requirements they can get in the wild which I cannot totally duplicate so they get a varied diet as described above till they can be released into the wild.