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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/08/commies_ate_my_rabbits/

Godless N Korean commies ate my monster rabbits
Mystery surrounds fate of giant German bunnies
By Lester Haines → More by this author
Published Sunday 8th April 2007 09:02 GMT

The German breeder who sold 12 German Gray Giant rabbits to North Korea believes the planned breeding programme may have been canned after communist officials tucked into the oversized bunnies.

German pensioner Karl Szmolinsky was approached back in January by the North Korean embassy in Berlin after "attracting attention for breeding his country's largest rabbit". Szmolinsky subsequently supplied eight females and four males at £60 a head which were packed off to North Korea. Szmolinsky explained: "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."

However, Szmolinsky says the trip has now been cancelled, and suspects "it may be because communist officials have eaten the rabbits", according to The Telegraph. He admitted: "That's an assumption, not an assertion. But they're not getting any more. I think the animals aren't alive any more. I was due to go and inspect the animals and look at the facility. They kept delaying the trip. I would have liked to go."

Stressing his unilateral rabbit export embargo, Szmolinsky added: "North Korea won't be getting anything from me any more, they shouldn't even bother asking."

The North Korean embassy in Berlin has denied the rabbit feast claim. A spokesman said: "The rabbits aren't intended to be eaten, they are for breeding purposes."

A fully-fattened German Gray Giant can provide up to 15lb of meat - much-needed protein for a famine-stricken land. The Telegraph did spot one potentially fatal flaw in the breeding masterplan, though: since the monster rabbits are "voracious eaters", just how did the Pyongyang authorities intend to feed the beasts? ®

I checked the date this time and it NOT a April fools

/yay!

One must say the entire enterprise seemed strange from the get go...

I think that whoever sold them was stupid. What did you think they were really going to do with them?

I remember reading a thread on this ages ago. It's still funny.:D

DPRK: Most nutty country around.

Since the start of that I always wondered "How is sending rabbits to a famine-stricken country going to help with the famine?"

If they don't even have the vegetables to feed themselves, there's no way they can feed the rabbits.

I think that whoever sold them was stupid. What did you think they were really going to do with them?

Oh...eat them of course. Fucking them to death is just louche.

I remember reading a thread on this ages ago. It's still funny.:D

Yeah...that was the before....this is the after :D

I can see if they were planning to raise rabbits as food-maybe they have plenty of grass/clover for the rabbits to eat,then they eat the rabbits.

But-they ate the initial stock?

Since the start of that I always wondered "How is sending rabbits to a famine-stricken country going to help with the famine?"

If they don't even have the vegetables to feed themselves, there's no way they can feed the rabbits.
Pellets I imagine. Rabbits don't have to eat what we eat, but we feed Flopsy that becuase he's around and we know he'll like it. If it costs less to feed a giant bunny pellets until it's slaughterable then it does to grow an equivelant amount of food they're in the shade.

I don't know if this is the case. Giant bunny man thinks so, guy in article speculates not. I don't know what everything would cost, so I'm not going to say one way or the other.
I think that whoever sold them was stupid. What did you think they were really going to do with them?

Eat their offspring.

Oh...eat them of course. Fucking them to death is just louche.

Plus they tend to kick..

Bah, North Korea is getting lazy. If they were really nuts, they'd spend their entire GDP putting one of these rabbits in to space for no other reason than to name another missile after somebody's dong.

Bah, North Korea is getting lazy. If they were really nuts, they'd spend their entire GDP putting one of these rabbits in to space for no other reason than to name another missile after somebody's dong.

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I wonder what the guy was thinking when he gave these rabbits to a government who would rather build weapons than feed their countries inhabitants.

This is by far one of the silliest things I've heard all day.

This is by far one of the silliest things I've heard all day.

Which parts? :p

Damn rabbit eating commies....


















:p

Damn rabbit eating commies....He should have sent them the opposite.

had to go look for a picture of this supposed Giant rabbit ...


holy.. http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,774187,00.jpg
crap! http://whiggles.landofwhimsy.com/funbag/rabbit.jpg


awww.. http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,774193,00.jpg

I checked the date this time and it NOT a April fools

/yay!

One must say the entire enterprise seemed strange from the get go...

Maybe Kim Jong-Il saw the bunnies as kindred souls and thought to liberate them from the imperial capitalists and from his adoring serfs?

Bah, North Korea is getting lazy. If they were really nuts, they'd spend their entire GDP putting one of these rabbits in to space for no other reason than to name another missile after somebody's dong.

That was my idea, but I was out-voted. :(

Maybe Kim Jong-Il saw the bunnies as kindred souls and thought to liberate them from the imperial capitalists and from his adoring serfs?

More likely he grew jealous at the size of their testicles and how much more the women liked them than him and had them shot as traitors and spies. *nod* ;)

Eat their offspring.Of course that's the sensible thing to do.

You never eat your breeding stock.



BTW anybody ever seen rabbits mate? It's hilarious... furiously fast and the male faints dead away upon climax.

Giant bunny sex is probably side splitting...

BTW anybody ever seen rabbits mate? It's hilarious... furiously fast and the male faints dead away upon climax.


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>_>

*blush*

If North Korea needs lots of cheap meat, I suggest raising emus or ostriches, not rabbits.

If North Korea needs lots of cheap meat, I suggest raising emus or ostriches, not rabbits.They all taste like chicken but I can't see you making a fur coat out of an ostrich.

More likely he grew jealous at the size of their testicles and how much more the women liked them than him and had them shot as traitors and spies. *nod* ;)

but only 4 of them were male. What about the 8 females?
No wait they probably turned down his advances and that why they were shot aswell...

Hungry people are given edible animals.
Hungry people eat said animals.
World is shocked.

If North Korea needs lots of cheap meat, I suggest raising emus or ostriches, not rabbits.

If North Korea needs lots of cheap food, I suggest the following steps:

1) Adopt capitalism
2) Grow rice

In that order.

Hungry people are given edible animals.
Hungry people eat said animals.
World is shocked.

No:

Well-fed party-men are given edible animals to breed, so as to feed the people they govern.
Well-fed party-men eat said animals.
World is shocked at how fucking harsh that is.

Hungry people are given edible animals.
Hungry people eat said animals.
World is shocked.

Its not like someone sent them a sandwich. Bred as intended would have fed far more hungry people.

And no one should be shocked-its bad judgement that got them in the position they are in today.

I really, really, really, really want one of those giant rabbits.

One of the coolest things i've ever seen.

I met a Texan oil baron in a small village in western Ireland last month. He too was looking for giant rabbits for breeding purposes. Coincidence? I think not.

True story too, he had a ten gallon hat and everything.

They all taste like chicken but I can't see you making a fur coat out of an ostrich.

No, but ostriches convert feed into meat more efficiently then other meat-producing animals. It's all about efficiency.

If North Korea needs lots of cheap food, I suggest the following steps:

1) Adopt capitalism
2) Grow rice

In that order.

I don't see how switching to growing cash-crops for export will feed North Koreans, capitalism doesn't help poor people. Maybe their foreign bosses will be oh so generous to feed them? More likely they'll just invest elsewhere if the Koreans are too expensive.

North Korea's corrupt, self-serving government is the problem, even if they sold the entire country to capitalist investors poor North Koreans' bellies would be empty. Letting the people on the bottom decide where the food goes will ensure most of it goes to the people on the bottom. As long as Kim Jong Il and his ruling elite decide it will continue to go to them.

Potatoes, ratites and democratic distribution will feed far more North Koreans then capitalist ideology and rice.

I don't see how switching to growing cash-crops for export will feed North Koreans, capitalism doesn't help poor people. .


Ah, so that's why the poor are so much worse off in the US and western europe than they are in north korea, china and russia.

Silly us, thinking that we got refugees from communist shitholes because they didnt like it at home, they were just sick of having it so good.

The rising tide brings up all boats, ask a north korean communist peon, one of mao's chinese peons, or one of stalin's peons - that is - if he hasnt starved to death yet.

I really, really, really, really want one of those giant rabbits.

One of the coolest things i've ever seen.

Me too.. I have the perfect barbeque sauce in mind.. ooh, and rabbit stew, with pearl onions and maybe cabbage. :)

I actually have a rabbit breeder in the neighborhood, but he breeds "Netherland Dwarf" rabbits.. no good for meat production, I'd think.

Me too.. I have the perfect barbeque sauce in mind.. ooh, and rabbit stew, with pearl onions and maybe cabbage. :)

I actually have a rabbit breeder in the neighborhood, but he breeds "Netherland Dwarf" rabbits.. no good for meat production, I'd think.

They can come in "Fun Size" bars or "Snack Packs" then, perfect for Halloween and other such pagan festivities.

They can come in "Fun Size" bars or "Snack Packs" then, perfect for Halloween and other such pagan festivities.

Hah. I suggest you pick up a Netherland Dwarf sometime.. if there's any meat on one, I couldn't find it. More suited to popping out of hats than anything else. I'll stick to the high-yield genetically-altered superrabbit. :p

Cook! Where's my Hasenpfeffer ?!?!

(Cookie to the first who gets the reference. Boy do I feel old.)

Since the start of that I always wondered "How is sending rabbits to a famine-stricken country going to help with the famine?"

If they don't even have the vegetables to feed themselves, there's no way they can feed the rabbits.

Pellets I imagine. Rabbits don't have to eat what we eat, but we feed Flopsy that becuase he's around and we know he'll like it. If it costs less to feed a giant bunny pellets until it's slaughterable then it does to grow an equivelant amount of food they're in the shade.

Err... you do know pellets don't grow on magic trees, right? Pellets are about 70% some sort of grain.[1 (http://www.rabbit.org/journal/3-4/pellet-info.html)] That means the rabbits are eating food that could feed people.

Cook! Where's my Hasenpfeffer ?!?!

(Cookie to the first who gets the reference. Boy do I feel old.)

What's up Doc?

Cook! Where's my Hasenpfeffer ?!?!

(Cookie to the first who gets the reference. Boy do I feel old.)


What's up Doc?

*hands over cookie*

It's probably for the best. If those rabbits had escaped NK would have even more problems to deal with. Wild rabbits where they don't belong are not fun.

Ah, so that's why the poor are so much worse off in the US and western europe than they are in north korea, china and russia.

Silly us, thinking that we got refugees from communist shitholes because they didnt like it at home, they were just sick of having it so good.

The rising tide brings up all boats, ask a north korean communist peon, one of mao's chinese peons, or one of stalin's peons - that is - if he hasnt starved to death yet.

You overlook another difference Western Europe, the US and Canada have over those countries. Unions and a welfare state. Not the mandatory government controlled unions of the Soviet Bloc that exist to tell the workers 'what they want' rather ones controlled by largely by their members. These union demanded higher wages for their members, as a result even ununionized worker's wages were forced up. Further by electing social democrats to their government welfare states were established, giving more universal healthcare coverage and better access to education.

Cuban working people tend to have slightly higher standards of living then other Caribbean working people, largely because of their better access to health care and education. Cuba's no socialist paradise, but it is worth keeping in mind.

Democracy and freedom of assembly leading to adoption of mild socialist reforms are what have improved the conditions of working peoples in the democratic part of the world, not capitalism.

Oh noez they're going to eat rabbitz!

I wouldn't be surprised if human was on the North Korean Food Pyramid.

Oh noez they're going to eat rabbitz!

I wouldn't be surprised if human was on the North Korean Food Pyramid.

It is.

Especially during the worst of the famine years, north koreans were sometimes arrested for selling human flesh on the black market.

Get and read this excellent book, there is a lot we all ought to learn about the DPRK.

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Loving-Care-Fatherly-Leader/dp/0312322216

It is.

Especially during the worst of the famine years, north koreans were sometimes arrested for selling human flesh on the black market.

Day by day my faith in humanity dies just a little more.

"Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses, and what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?"

If North Korea needs lots of cheap meat, I suggest raising emus or ostriches, not rabbits.

How about if they get a free Kangeroo with every Emu?

Just imagine what the peasant class people would think when they see those monsters running and hopping around!

Day by day my faith in humanity dies just a little more.

At least they won't be thinking that eating the heart gives them the other person's courage.

It's probably for the best. If those rabbits had escaped NK would have even more problems to deal with. Wild rabbits where they don't belong are not fun.

Look on the up side: They probably could develop just as much virus to deal with them as our attempt and given that it is a very selective breed you might make whatever you use close to 100% effective.

I'd still like to see one live. I'm not really skeptical, but...

I'd like one with filed down claws to confront my dog.

My dog: A bit smaller and scared of anything larger.

I'd still like to see one live. I'm not really skeptical, but...

Ride em cowboy!

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