Contributed by: filbert Friday, January 12 2007 @ 06:54 PM CST
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Fox News[*1] story (via the Belmont Club[*2] and Tigerhawk[*3] )
Karl Szmolinsky has been given a contract by North Koreato supply giant rabbits to help to boost meat production in thereclusive Communist country, which is suffering severe food shortages.The only problem is that such huge rabbits consume vast quantities offood themselves as they grow.
Szmolinsky, from Eberswalde, in the east of Germany, was contacted by the North Korean Embassy in Berlin in October after Robert attracted press coverage. “They wantto boost meat production. They’ve arranged for me to go to Pyongyang in April to advise them on setting up a breeding farm,” Szmolinsky, who is 68 next month, told The Times.