Update: Giant Rabbit off to North Korea

OK, so I didn't want to get too political in the post, but what are they thinking? These things take more food to feed than they produce in meat (even though each rabbit can stuff 8 people). 5 years from now they'll probably have 15,000 monster bunnies happily eating all the farm crops while the rest of the world sends the starving people millions of pounds of food to make up for the shortfall.

N. Korea can't do anything right ... is there some idiot switch that turns on when you become a communist leader?

Whoa! Let's send them some more weird animals ... probably much more dangerous than a nuclear arms race!

Haha! How to "bread" a rabbit. That's good. Probably unintentional, but good nonetheless.

A little beaten egg and some flour with spices...

Oh, now come ON!!! That's one of the worst Photoshop jobs I've ever seen. My cat could do a better job of matching subject and background than that! And the other photos in the link aren't any better.

...mmmm... hasenpfeffer...

by the by, I'll take real rabbit over "street rabbit" any day of the week. (go over to wiki and search "taboo meat" to get what I'm talking about.)

Reminds me of "Night of the Lepus".

The "Spiegel" is a very renowned news magazine here in Germany so I don't think, that the pictures are photoshopped...

woow bu ne ya acayip ha Thank you

...you guys, as someone said in the previous post about this rabbit, the man's hand is about as big as his whole head. just something to think about. i don't believe this picture is real, or at least "untouched."

Karl Szmolinsky has been rather famous for years, on and offline, for breeding big rabbits. He always backs himself away from the camera and shoves the rabbit up close to make it lok bigger. Its possible they used a slightly curved lens, too, but the rabbits are big. He's not the one who can grow a large rabbit, just ask Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/giantrabbit.asp

Photoshop, fisheye lens or a combination of both. This photo and the photos at the link are definitely manipulated. The head and shoulders of this rabbit have the quintesential photoshop look. The guy's left hand is out of proportion to the rest of the photo. One other thing. I've never seen a rabbit with a sizeable tail. This one has a sizeable tail. I'm not saying certain rabbit breeds don't, but I"ve never seen them.

My vote is fisheye or close-up of the lens. This was all over the news last night, and some of the other pictures the rabbit's head looked a little smaller.

It's really hard to believe that ALL of the major news organizations covering this story would doctor the photos. Besides, 22 lb is REALLY big ... like Turkey sized.

Maybe in Germany, instead of making Turducken, they make Raburken (a chicken, inside a turkey, inside a giant rabbit). :)

Typical for Germany. Tanks didn´t work, so now they are trying to take over the world with giant rabbits.

Anita Says: OK, so I didn’t want to get too political in the post, but what are they thinking? These things take more food to feed than they produce in meat (even though each rabbit can stuff 8 people). 5 years from now they’ll probably have 15,000 monster bunnies happily eating all the farm crops while the rest of the world sends the starving people millions of pounds of food to make up for the shortfall.

It won't take five years; the people are already starving, and the world is already shipping food in there, but the screwball pot-bellied dictator running the diverts it all to his 3rd-rate military. He'd do the same with the rabbits, and nothing will change.

I hope Karl turns them down flat.

Maybe in Germany, instead of making Turducken, they make Raburken (a chicken, inside a turkey, inside a giant rabbit).

Umm, rabbit's good eatin' I think a chicken inside a turkey inside a giant rabbit sounds great!

As for an idiot off switch?? Unfortunatly we flip that one at least 99% of all the public officals are gone...maybe not so unfortunate....

To shoot such a rabbit is a dream of every hunter

Rabbits have negative nutritional value, meaning that your burn more calories eating it than you get from it.

This is quite an old story. The horrible part of it s that, after giving his prize rabbits to the people from the N. Korean consulate, in a good cause, Karl Szmolinsky heard no word for some months - despite having been told he would be needed to give advice on breeding monster bunnies. He eventually learnt that his rabbits had been dished up to the Korean president and friends as a novelty course in a banquet. While the people starve.

OMG! thats a big rabbit!

# Lasse Says:
January 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Typical for Germany. Tanks didn´t work, so now they are trying to take over the world with giant rabbits.

22. Lasse Says:
January 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Typical for Germany. Tanks didn´t work, so now they are trying to take over the world with giant rabbits.

gila tuch kelinci dikasih makan apan pe gede gt??????

This is disgusting! A beautiful creature is created and instead of valuing a greater diversity in our world we eat them! Typical of North Korea to only think of themselves and food. People are dying of starvation, its a hard fact and something must be done, but how is killing an innocent rabbit (which has done nothing but be cute) any better? It's not. ITS PLAIN MURDER. Whoever decided on this new breeding rabbits for food system must be sick in the head, I'm sure they arent volunteering to put themselves to death to feed others. It disgusts me so much. Shame on anyone who supports the torturous captivity, forced breeding and slaughter of these beautiful new creatures.

This is indeed a horrible photoshop job. If you have ever held a rabbit you know they are strong(even the little ones). If this rabbit was real there would be no possible way to hold it for more than five seconds if that.

omg y r u all so mean to the cute wabbit i luv wabbits i have 3 at home and i want a giant wabbit its too cute i want to ride it to school.but it is funny that there tring to bread rabbits hahah cause thats realy impossible(sarcasm)

and as someone sead b4 wabbit are strong but they dont always use there stength when u hold them if there friendly theyll sit still ps dont eat him

Hm..... is this real? Cause i think the guy's fist is bigger than his damn head.......... must got radiated by the nuclear energy as well....

How creepy can these people get? Eating their pets.........eeewwww!!!!! gross!!!!

PHOTOSHOP

IT is nothing but a flesh trade. I hate people who kill animals to feed themselves.