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North Korea tells people to eat black swans amid crippling food crisis
2021-11-01
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
’s supreme leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
has told hungry citizens to resort to eating black swans amid the country’s ongoing food crisis, the New York Post reported on Friday.

The country has been pushing ornamental birds as a protein-rich substitute while opening breeding plants, according to the report.

"Black swan meat is delicious and has medicinal value," said the Hermit Kingdom’s ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun, to push bird meat, which is rarely eaten across the world.

Research into breeding these ornamental birds began in early 2019. Researchers sponsored by the state went so far as to say that the meat had "anticancer" properties, Korean news outlet NK News said.

The news media also previously called black swan meat "an exceptional health food for the 21st century with a unique taste and extremely high nutritional value."
Posted by:Fred

#5  I guess that's one way to tell Nassim NIcolas Taleb who's boss.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2021-11-01 17:36  

#4  at least it was about black Swans, not
Posted by: Frank G   2021-11-01 10:46  

#3  "It looks like mud."
"No, that's pate'"
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-11-01 10:39  

#2  First you gotta have one.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-11-01 10:31  

#1  The irony, it burns.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2021-11-01 08:10  

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