Lol ...this sounds more like a joke, but serious to the owners. Its has been announced in the recent world news that at least one
million cockroaches have escaped a farm in China where they were being
bred for use in traditional medicine. According to the Morden Newspaper,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
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
Believers in traditional Chinese medicine 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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