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2013/08/25 23:28:23
Subject: That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
At least one million cockroaches have escaped a farm in China where they were being bred for use in traditional medicine, a report said.
The cockroaches fled the facility in Dafeng, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, for surrounding cornfields earlier this month after an "unknown perpetrator" destroyed the plastic greenhouse where they were raised, the Modern Express newspaper said.
Disease control authorities have sent five investigators to the area to come up with a plan to stamp out the insects.
Farm owner Wang Pengsheng invested more than 100,000 yuan ($16,000) in 102 kilograms of Periplaneta americana eggs after spending six months developing a business plan, the report Friday said.
The cockroach is generally considered a pest, but believers in traditional Chinese medicine—which uses both plants and animals, including endangered species—say extracts from it can treat diseases including cancer, reduce inflammation and improve immunity.
By the time the greenhouse was damaged, more than 1.5 million cockroaches had hatched and were being fed food including "fruits and biscuits" every day, Wang was quoted as saying.
He had expected to make around 1,000 yuan profit for every kilogram of cockroaches sold, according to the report, but was now facing losses of hundreds of thousands of yuan.
The first thing that sprang to mind was that Bug thing from the first Men in Black film, roaming China and freeing the insects from under the heels of their oppressors...
Dark Apostle 666 wrote: The first thing that sprang to mind was that Bug thing from the first Men in Black film, roaming China and freeing the insects from under the heels of their oppressors...
This wasn't the first thing in me head but it's there now...
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2013/08/26 01:25:43
Subject: That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
Do I get bonus points for not having to alter the original quote?
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2013/08/26 01:57:29
Subject: That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
1 million Roaches is nothing. I've seen kitchens with more roaches than that
He could get his whole Inventory back by cleaning up a few apartments on the southside, and probably get paid for it too
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hotsauceman1 wrote: Little know fact, Roaches are the housekeepers of the bug kingdom.
Now, how can i get the roaches to carry me like a wave at a concert
Watch Joes Apartment, Im sure youll learn something from it.
Roaches gross me the hell out. Blech.
2013/08/26 13:24:23
Subject: Re:That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
But they poo as they go, so no. They also vector other nasties.
Add maggots to wounds to clean them, not roaches.
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2013/08/26 13:37:07
Subject: That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
At least one million cockroaches have escaped a farm in China where they were being bred for use in traditional medicine, a report said.
The cockroaches fled the facility in Dafeng, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, for surrounding cornfields earlier this month after an "unknown perpetrator" destroyed the plastic greenhouse where they were raised, the Modern Express newspaper said.
Disease control authorities have sent five investigators to the area to come up with a plan to stamp out the insects.
Farm owner Wang Pengsheng invested more than 100,000 yuan ($16,000) in 102 kilograms of Periplaneta americana eggs after spending six months developing a business plan, the report Friday said.
The cockroach is generally considered a pest, but believers in traditional Chinese medicine—which uses both plants and animals, including endangered species—say extracts from it can treat diseases including cancer, reduce inflammation and improve immunity.
By the time the greenhouse was damaged, more than 1.5 million cockroaches had hatched and were being fed food including "fruits and biscuits" every day, Wang was quoted as saying.
He had expected to make around 1,000 yuan profit for every kilogram of cockroaches sold, according to the report, but was now facing losses of hundreds of thousands of yuan.
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2013/08/26 13:39:11
Subject: Re:That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
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2013/08/26 13:39:58
Subject: That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
Jehan-reznor wrote: Nobody worries about the fact the cockroaches were used in traditional medicine? eeeeuw!
No, cockroaches are quite clean infact. They clean the wounds of foreign material. Much like maggots.
Doesn't stop them from being icky as all hell, as well as being a transport for other things we don't like. Cockroaches are just indicative of a dirty environment (in places that they breed) and can become a pest in places where one would not want to see them.
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2013/08/26 14:11:17
Subject: Re:That's a lot of yuan, and also, quite a few cockroaches
mega_bassist wrote: Man, it reallly bugs me when people vandalize/damage property like this.
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