The head of Bavaria's state office for health and food safety, Volker Hingst, said the slaughter was "a purely precautionary measure," taken after "laboratory indications of H5N1" were found. The birds were not visibly sick, he said.

The Nuremberg-based 's Blaggers has completely replaced waiters with an automated system (via The Raw Feed). While there have certainly been fast food restaurants that have let patrons order themselves, in this case, it's a sit-down restaurant.

North Korea puts its bunny where its mouth is. The communist state, which suffers severe food shortages, has handed a contract to a German man to supply it with his award-winning giant rabbits.

Canadian novelist James Bacque has alleged that nearly one million German prisoners of war, redesignated by U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower as "Disarmed Enemy Forces" in order to avoid recognition under the third Geneva Convention, died of starvation or exposure while held in post-war Western internment camps.Bacque charges that hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war (POWs) who entered the camps were not transferred out, so they must have died. He also points to a German report recording the death of 1.4 million German POWs, and Soviet data accounting for only 450,600 of these deaths. (The remainder, he says, must then have died in Western camps.) In his book Other Losses, Bacque recounts interviews with people who claimed to have witnessed trucks full of dead leaving the camps each day, and civilian women who say they were fired upon while trying to throw bread over the camp fence. The fact that Red Cross inspectors were banned, Red Cross food aid was returned, building of shelters was forbidden and soldiers were kept on short rations are seen by Bacque as a "method of the genocide."Another critic of Eisenhower's policy in Germany was senator Homer E. Capehart.