- The national leader hopes that communities will raise rabbits to use their meat as a protein substitute / The president announced the measure in a council of ministers
President Nicolás Maduro presented on Tuesday a measure called "rabbit plan" that, in his opinion, will help combat hunger and protein shortages in Venezuelans' diets.
During the council of ministers on Tuesday, the national president explained that the plan is about giving a rabbit to each community and wait for them to "breed like rabbits" with the intention of using their meat as a substitute for beef and chicken.
Maduro gave the floor to Freddy Bernal, Minister of Urban Agriculture, to explain the proposal in depth, because he was the creator of it.
"We have been taught that the rabbit is a pet, well, but that's the rabbit viewed from the point of view of the economic war. One rabbit gives birth to about ten or twelve bunnies, and at the end eight are raised. In two and a half months we have a 2.5 kilogram rabbit", Bernal said.
The president reported that Bernal had delivered the first batch of rabbits to 15 communities, but the citizens did not follow the plan to the letter. "When he came back, surprise, the people gave the bunnies ribbons and were using them as pets. It was a first setback of the rabbit plan."
I get that rabbits are cute, but if you're starving, maybe don't keep them as pets.
Carson Perez
They can still eat them. Petting the buns probably tenderizes the meat. What's the problem?
Adam Young
can't they just import chicken from bolivia? it's quite a socialist thing to forget about cultural hangups. learn from american pr agencies
Parker Adams
Importing your food isn't free or sustainable.
Ryan Ramirez
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Zachary Reed
They're just quoting what Maduro and Bernal said, they even put the original video below the article.
Carson Ward
it's lifestock, you import once and breed it
Lincoln Ortiz
What do you feed them with?
Christian Harris
Reactionary corpses
Adam Campbell
What do you feed rabbits with?
Gabriel Butler
Rabbits can live off grass just fine, chickens require seed.
Juan Jackson
Rabbit meat is too lean. This doesn't even work in theory.
William Thomas
This is Mao tier
Lincoln Cook
unless they're free range, I doubt meat rabbit farms are going to destroy the ecosystem
Hunter King
fair point
well cia did burn their food, so they may as well go for quick lifehack
Christopher Cruz
lel
Angel Sanchez
don't throw up it's just a normal pill
Jackson Torres
why not just let foreign businesses in the country to sell for cheap
Liam Lee
Also I think the point is how quickly they reproduce.
Josiah Ramirez
that's imperialism you shit
Samuel Ross
First step-Seize the means of production Second step-Take rich peoples money and invest into expanding the means of production, into agriculture and education Third step-Use the money and newly educated population to build fully automated communism
Seriously there are numerous billionaires in the Venezuela. Hugo Chaves daughter is constantly seen hanging out with justin bieber and other stars. Why don't these assholes either start building socialism or drop the label socialism??!
Jason Cooper
As long as you get some source of fats, like an oil, you'll be okay.
Tyler Martinez
Poor little guys, but the idea could work
Samuel Phillips
Did we finally find a modern leader even crazier than Erdgoan?
Owen Parker
I'm gonna need some examples of Erdogan craziness, I haven't heard anything about him that isn't typical for reactionary leaders
Jose Hall
Why not just eat plants?
Leo Smith
Isn't that what Kim Jong-il did during the North Korean famine in the 90s?
Jose Powell
That's a lovely non-source you got there. Maduro really needs to just gulag these people.
Levi Lee
This sounds so ridiculous. I mean his awesome farming idea ended up in ribbons, literally. It sounds like some silly joke.
Let's hope Kim Jong-un won't eat all the rabbits this time.
Julian Lewis
What is protein?
Christian Richardson
They deserve to starve.
Jason Wood
There is a lot of truth here. Venezuela looks like green country. They should just grow more vegetables. Might even try to grow rice. Could also invest into vertical farming if urbanization is very high.
There is a lot of truth here. Venezuela looks like green country. They should just grow more vegetables. Might even try to grow rice. Could also invest into vertical farming if urbanization is very high.
There is a lot of truth here. Venezuela looks like green country. They should just grow more vegetables. Might even try to grow rice. Could also invest into vertical farming if urbanization is very high.
There is a lot of truth here. Venezuela looks like green country. They should just grow more vegetables. Might even try to grow rice. Could also invest into vertical farming if urbanization is very high.
ITT: People who don't know that rabbits were one of the most common meat livestocks in the world for a long time, famously succesfully used by the british during ww2.
Adrian Walker
that's what farms are for even third world people are retarded, no amount of unpoo shilling will change that
Aaron Garcia
Rabbits aren't kosher OR halal.
Venezuela isn't going to get much love from its Muslim allies for this.
Parker Sanders
lmao yes they are. why the fuck do people make up random shit about islam online? what's the point?
John James
I guess I will take this bait since I actually am a bit more well read in the ideas of Islam.
Pigs are not halal, this mean all pork products, because during the time in which the prophet muhmmad was alive in the 7th century Arabia. Pigs were (and still are) very dirty animals, and the people would end up getting sick because of the diseases the pigs had. So when the Qu'ran was put into a book all of Chapter 6 is about what foods God allowed you to eat, which is everything expect the pig. So in this case Rabbits are fine.
On topic of the article, I believe this will be a great plan long as they tell the communities not to keep them as pets and treat them as other livestock, mix that up with some veggies and other agriculture products and I believe that Venezuela can support itself even under attack by the US Imperial Machine.
Aaron Gutierrez
eh not quite. no animals that eat other animals (except seafood since seafood is one giant foodchain of fish eating smaller fish), no blood, no animals that you just find dead/died of disease/roadkill, most insects, and of course pig
Thomas Barnes
Feed conversion ratio of Rabbit is 2.5-4 depending on diet. They'd better be feeding those buns inedible material or they'd be better off raising chickens (an FCR of ~2).
Jace Evans
Good move, but he's still idiot. Why can't he simply COLLECTIVIZE ALL FARMLAND LAND? Rabbits into every community is nice, but he should have had send tractors first. Then start raising poultry, cows and pigs. They would absolutely eradicate hunger in one year, and in 3 years would be able to export food.
chicken live off grass just fine, too. What are you talking about?
Erdogan sent people to jail for giving facebook "like" on meme in which he was made fun of.
Carter Russell
"fully automated communism" will never exist
Jordan Hughes
step two can only be achieved by dismantling currency, because if you go to step three with porky money you have already lost your chance to prove viability of socialism
Michael Fisher
they have to send army to protect the farmers and produce from counterrevolutionaries, which racks up the costs under market economy to the point of non-profitability
Jacob Price
that's just another reason FOR collectivization of farmland. Regular army can't fight terrorists. Simply give farmers guns, donate tech and let them sell surplus on national market. What can go wrong?
Asher Fisher
wtf is going on in that picture chins don´t start on the backof your neck and where the fuck are her shoulders?????
John Martinez
An excellent idea. What the venezuelans should also do is kill all the sparrows who eat grain seeds and build backyard furnaces to make venezuela a steel producer and secure the support of french philosophers.
Yeah those venezuelans is going to have a hard time survivng the cold nothern winters with nothing but rabbits to eat.
Adrian Jenkins
How can you do something without porkies money in the porkies world?
Gabriel Watson
Future minister of agriculture right here.
Ryder Sanchez
They obviously won't have the same fucking dietary restricitons you absolute fucking retard. They're prefectly capable of getting palm oil or whatever year round.
Ethan Jackson
Your brain sounds hungry.
Angel Reed
isn't step first seizing means of production? if you control raw resources and MoP and redistribute them cooperatively you already bypass entire capitalist system by default
Levi Anderson
They obviously don't have a sustainable diet that's why they seek to breed rabbits on their pastures to get more protein. The point you seem to be missing is that protein poisoning comes from living in an extremely harsh enviroment where the only food avaible is hunting rabbits which offer almost only protein resulting in non-sustainable diet. How much of a brainlet do you have to be to think they will die from protein poisoning by introducing some protein to their diet?
Justin Nguyen
Smart thinking
Luis Lewis
i guess you're one of those that think everyone but them is an idiot
Hudson Rodriguez
Have you already eat a rabbit ? I do and I can tell you i'm fine. Btw you can live without animal fat, i know vegans who do it, they aren't built like Ronnie Coleman but at least they aren't fat fags.
Christopher Collins
It may well work if the population is simply suffering insufficient calorific or protein intake. Furthermore, if fed on inedible cellulose, the rabbits offer a far superior FCR to sheep or cattle, comparable and is comparable to pork even on a less efficient feedstock. Rabbits grow to maturity quicker than pigs, too.
Nathaniel Rogers
I think I exceeded my daily recommended intake of autism after reading this. Nobody fucking claims that you'll get protein poisoning after adding rabbits to normal diet.
James Gonzalez
Maybe they're on to something here. Their next step might be to get vegetables and cereals to multiply themselves to solve hunger.
Tyler Hernandez
I'm completely convinced you're retarded. Have you raised chicken? They absolutely can NOT live on strictly "grass" they will eat little bugs and some plants, but if you want to raise more than a couple they need seeds.
Justin Cook
Maduro is no longer my fucking comrade
Cooper Perez
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Cameron Price
Which they find in the grass
David Murphy
This is quite literally one of the stages towards commercialisation.
It's basic thermodynamics that it takes less work to create calories with plants.
Alexander Rodriguez
Calling it now.
Anthony Martin
Does this poster even realize how much capital is invested in the animal industry that could be liquidated for this?
Aiden Lewis
Why are tankies so fucking stupid? No wonder they starve all the time with these kinds of leaders. Protip: if you need food, don't grow food to feed the food to animals, just grow food to eat it yourselves. Any collection of beans would be twice as good as this retarded rabbit plan.
Carter Ortiz
this tbh, there is no need in giving grass to animals instead of people, and collective farms of ML countries did not help to eradicate hunger at all.