Venezuela's president advises malnourished citizens to breed rabbits and eat them

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

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Venezuela's president advises malnourished citizens to breed rabbits and eat them
[The Independent]
Andrew Buncombe
,The Independent•September 14, 2017
Residents of Venezuela have been advised to breed rabbits and eat them to increase their protein intake: Reuters
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Venezuela’s government has launched a scheme to encouage people to breed rabbits and eat them as a way of countering frequently chronic food shortages and growing child malnutrition.

The government of Nicolas Maduro said the so-called Rabbit Plan would help boost food availability. Officials have also shown citizens how to grow food on the roofs and balconies of their homes.
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Reuters said Mr Maduro’s adversaries dismissed the idea as nonsensical, insisting the real problem is a failed model of oil-financed socialism that was unable to survive after crude markets collapsed.

Mr Maduro said US sanctions on him and more than 20 of his officials have exacerbated the crisis. The Trump administration also recently banned US banks from buying newly-issued bonds from Venezuela’s government and the state-run oil company, PDVSA. Mr Trump has also suggested a "military solution" for dealing with Venezuala.

“There is a cultural problem because we have been taught that rabbits are cute pets,” said Urban Agriculture Minister Freddy Bernal said during a televised broadcast with Mr Maduro this week, according to the news agency.

“A rabbit is not a pet; it’s two-and-a-half kilos of meat that is high in protein, with no cholesterol.”

Mr Maduro’s critics mocked the idea.

“Are you serious,” asked Henrique Capriles, a state governor and two-time opposition presidential candidate in a video to response to Mr Bernal.

“You want people to start raising rabbits to solve the problem of hunger in our country?”

¿Cuántos enchufados van a criar conejos en casa?Maduro y sus "brillantes" ideas para resolver el problema que él creó!No puedes con el país! pic.twitter.com/CUM6TPUvE3
— Henrique Capriles R. (@hcapriles) September 13, 2017

While eating rabbits may be common in some countries in the world, it is not so in Venezuela. But amid soaring inflation and shortages of certain basic foodstuffs, people have been looking for alternatives.

Earlier this year, the Catholic charity Caritas said child malnutrition in parts of Venezuela was now at the level of a humanitarian crisis

“We are extremely worried,” said Janeth Márquez, director of Caritas Venezuela, “which is why we are going public with this series of reports. We have been monitoring levels of malnutrition and providing assistance to under-fives since October across four states: Distrito Capital, Vargas, Miranda and Zulia."

He added: “Our results clearly show that general levels of malnutrition are rising and acute malnutrition in children has crossed the crisis threshold. If we don’t respond soon, it will become very difficult for these children ever to get back onto their nutritional growth curve.”
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Mike Liny
Mike Liny
13 hours ago
The socialists really are good at making fools of themselves, and turning their country into a big joke: long lines, no toilet paper, paper money worth less than a penny, now eating rabbits. I swear, they are turning more and more like Latin America's North Korea. Kim Jong Il suggested the same when he had giant rabbits imported to be bred for human consumption. This is socialism of the 21st century.

cisco
cisco
8 hours ago
Rabbit meat is a good, lean food that many, may people around the world eat and enjoy. Many people breed rabbits for food and it is a shame that we no longer consider rabbit meat instead of chicken. I grew up enjoying rabbit pie and other rabbit dishes. I've looked for it in California and only rabbit I could find was frozen rabbit imported from China. I don't eat any food from China because I remember all the dogs that died because of made in China dog food.
one
one
8 hours ago
Hows that socialism working out for you ?

Venezuela and North Korea , both socialist paradises have citizens starving to death...
As does China, except China keeps its problem well hidden....
This is the same damn socialism the ffing dem party promotes folks.
If the demorat, demi-god obama could have only gotten 8 more years , we could be enjoying such socialistic paradise too!!!!

Why hell, now you know what those much heralded thugs are fighting for now as they try to shut down any and all right-wing free speech..

It is so that we can be blessed to raise rabbits and not have enough money to buy even toilet paper.. socialism at its finest...

THE SAME DAMN SOCIALISM that so many of our universities are heralding, teaching AND BRAINWASHING YOUNG STUDENTS INTO BELIEVING IN. -Tyr