Negara komunis Korea Utara menaruh perhatian besar
pada kelinci Jerman sebagai kemungkinan solusi
mengatasi kelaparan di negara yang mendahulukan proyek
mercu-suar senjata nuklir daripada kesejahteraan
rakyat itu.
Kalau memang beratnya bisa sampai 10 kilo per ekor,
daging kelinci memang akan jauh lebih membantu
daripada tikus. Dan terang jauh lebih enak hehehe ...
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North Korea Eyes German Man's Behemoth Bunnies As
Solution To Hunger Problems
BERLIN, Feb. 2, 2007
(AP) A German breeder believes he has the answer to
North Korea's hunger problems: his giant bunnies that
can grow to as big as 23 pounds.
Karl Szmolinsky has raised the German Giants _ gray
rabbits the size of cocker spaniels _ for 44 years at
his home in Eberswalde, northeast of Berlin.
After winning the biggest bunny prize a year ago at a
state fair _ for a 23.2-pound, 29-inch-long gray giant
_ the retired chauffeur received an unexpected call
from the regional farmers' federation.
North Korea, apparently, was interested in his rabbits
as a possible solution for its hunger-stricken
population of 23 million.
The secretive regime of communist leader Kim Jong Il
has relied on foreign food aid since natural disasters
and mismanagement devastated its economy in the
mid-1990s and led to a famine estimated to have killed
2 million people.
Diplomats from the North Korean Embassy in Berlin
drove out to Eberswalde to see the big bunnies for
themselves.
"They came here and they checked out the rabbits,"
Szmolinsky, 67, told The Associated Press. "They
really liked them."
A woman answering the telephone at the North Korean
Embassy in Berlin said she could not comment.
Szmolinsky sold them four females and two males to
start a pilot program, and he plans to fly to
Pyongyang, the capital of the communist nation, in
April at their request to see how things are
progressing.
Females produce two litters of eight to 14 offspring
each year, so the four alone could produce as many as
112 rabbits in the first year alone. At that rate, it
would not take long to make an impact, especially
because a single rabbit produces some 15 pounds of
meat.
"They're really good for their hunger problem,"
Szmolinsky said.
Szmolinsky said the rabbits' appetite should not be a
concern for the North Koreans. "They'll eat absolutely
anything," he said. "It's no big problem."
As an added bonus, Szmolinsky says the meat is quite
tasty.
"I eat a lot of roast rabbit," he said.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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