"Let Them Eat Rabbit" Is Venezuelan President's Response To Food Shortages
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has unveiled an unusual strategy to help ease the chronic food shortage faced by many of his nation's 30 million people — something he calls Plan Conejo, or "Plan Rabbit."
Maduro and his ministers are embarking on a somewhat surprising — and to many, alarming — campaign to convince Venezuelans to eat rabbits. They say rabbits will make an excellent source of protein for the large number of people who don't have regular access to red meat or chicken as the result of the country's economic collapse.
Maduro hopes the small mammal will counter the impact of what he calls a huge "economic war" waged against him by "imperialists" — notably the United States and his arch-enemy, President Donald Trump.
This would only be equivalent to "let them eat bread" if there was no rabbit meat to eat.
Zachary Martin
*let them eat cake Sorry, tired af.
David Nguyen
I wonder what could go wrong!
Cameron Walker
This.
I guess he should let them starve like western nations do.
Jordan White
Rabbit meat can causes protein poisoning due to its lack of fat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning He might cause a large amount of the population to kill itself.
Hunter Powell
This used to be a problem in feudal England when the royalty would eat nothing but rabbit because of how good it tastes.
Easton Scott
What the hell are you going to feed them with?
Why don't they just tell people to put more yucca, potatoes, bananas and plaintains (you can't get anything cheaper than those) in their diets?
This just sounds like one of those dumb things that the president says to distract people from real news.
Owen Long
Oh goody more western propaganda.
Hunter Walker
all the food is being taken out of the country to be sold. This is because the currency in venezuela is experiencing inflation and there is a price ceiling for all (basic) goods that don't get updated very often and even when they are the prices are way below even the cost of producing the food.
What I can't understand is why the government just didn't seize all the farms and just employ people there once this started to be a big problem. Obviously due to economic incentives farmers are not going to go into poverty to feed the nation.
Oliver Barnes
So it's the USSR all over again.
Sebastian Phillips
Are rabbits gonna be to Venezuela what sparrows are to China?
Robert Brooks
He's talking out of his ass. There's no price ceiling for vegetables or fruits right now.
Colton Phillips
Sad.
Xavier Peterson
There's already a thread for this you stupid fucker
William Robinson
Also:
That's what they tried to do before. They redistributed the land without checking whether it was producing or not, and then let the new owners do whatever the hell they wanted.
Your shitposting doesn't make this article false.
Adrian Roberts
Like a guy say in the other thread
Josiah Johnson
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Nicholas Gray
Sorry nobody is arguing against your lazy as fuck propaganda. Did you write it yourself?
Jacob Jenkins
Rabbit meat is too lean to rely on as a source of nutrition. It can replace other meats but you still need staple foods and some source of fat
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??!
