Thursday, February 15, 2007
Bring me my hasenfeffer!
Apparently, the North Korean government is hoping to solve its mass starvation problem by breeding enormous rabbits. Reason magazine's Tom Palmer explains why it won't work:
"They're not very economical as a food source. Huge rabbits require huge amounts of food to make them so big. The socialist planner wants a big rabbit. The entrepreneur asks whether there is a positive difference between the cost of feeding the rabbit and the value of the rabbit. For the giant ones, it seems that the difference is negative. But that wouldn't stop a good socialist. After all, if you have a giant hunger problem, the answer must be giant foods."
Perhaps the North Koreans were inspired by the picture of German rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky's male breeding rabbit at Rich Galen's Web site:
Is that an actual rabbit? Or is it Al Gore in a bunny suit?!
"They're not very economical as a food source. Huge rabbits require huge amounts of food to make them so big. The socialist planner wants a big rabbit. The entrepreneur asks whether there is a positive difference between the cost of feeding the rabbit and the value of the rabbit. For the giant ones, it seems that the difference is negative. But that wouldn't stop a good socialist. After all, if you have a giant hunger problem, the answer must be giant foods."
Perhaps the North Koreans were inspired by the picture of German rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky's male breeding rabbit at Rich Galen's Web site:
Is that an actual rabbit? Or is it Al Gore in a bunny suit?!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, February 15, 2007 
