Cows face Competition in North Korea

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

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, which is suffering severe food shortages. The only problem is that such huge rabbits consume vast quantities of food themselves as they grow.



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

This pleases me

[Mythsaje]

1. That's a big freakin' rabbit...n/t

[BayCityProgressive]

2. aww

it's so cute. I could never eat it! If it is cheaper than other meats though, I hope it helps the Koreans. I wish no ill will on the Korean people. They only want to live in peace and security like the rest of humanity.

[Warpy]

3. DAMN, that's a big bunny!

I can remember feeding rabbits things like violet leaves and I think the pellets are maid of a combination of grain, hay and vitamins. They can eat wilted lettuce leaves, hay, and vegetable scraps.

The one in that picture looks like he'd eat anything that didn't bite him first.

[TygrBright]

4. Wow!! That's a LOT of hassenpfeffer!!!

Seriously, though, rabbit is very ecologically sound meat livestock. You get way more calories out per calories in than most other critters, and what they eat doesn't require factory farming to support. They can be raised in a very small area and rabbit droppings are both useful and (comparatively) tidy to collect. They are very easy to kill humanely and dress the carcass without much waste. The meat is high protein and low fat.

Assuming you can nerve yerself up to eat Bugs or Thumper. (They're pretty tasty, though, I gotta admit.)

But that pic reminds me of the old joke about the 50-lb. budgerigar. ("What does a 50 lb. budgie say?" "Here, kitty, kitty...")

amusedly,
Bright