For this story when I read it today, it wasn’t so much the context of the story at first that really caught my attention but rather this picture:
That is one huge rabbit huh? I still can’t believe that is real. In a nutshell, the story is about a man named Karl Szmolinsky who lives in Germany and is apparently known for breeding giant rabbits like the one you see in that picture. He has just recently been offered a contract by North Korea to purchase some of these rabbits as a way to boost meat production in the country to help solve food shortages. On top of that, he is apparently going to North Korea to set up a breeding farm for these giant rabbits.
He did briefly mention what he fed these rabbits to get them to become so big and he mentioned a lot of ordinary stuff such as carrots and a lot of other vegetables. The interesting note I thought was that he specifically said that these rabbits ate a lot and that North Korea would have to be able to find enough food to feed them properly. In some ways that is kind of strange when you think about it as if they are already having a food supply problem, you’d think that with all those vegetables that you are feeding the rabbits it could be used to feed the people instead. Either way, this will be stuck in my head for awhile.
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