Who Needs Beef in North Korea?

While looking up Aubrie's inauguration day parade at Willow School photo on the Chicago Tribune Web site*, I came across a section highlighting the most emailed photos.

This is real. Here's the description that accompanies the photo.

Karl Szmolinsky, who raises a breed of rabbits called giant grays, shows Robert, an 8.5kg giant gray who is 74cm long and has ears 25.5cm long, in the backyard of his house in Eberswalde, Germany in 2006. Szmolinsky sold eight giant grays to a delegation from North Korea that wanted to raise the breed as a source of meat for the North Korean population. Szmolinsky said his rabbits reach a maximum weight of 10.5 kg (23.1lbs.).

*We found the parade picture, but Aubrie was cut off from it. Still, got a rabbit "tale," so it was worth it.