China Menaced by Escaping Cockroach Farm
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Aug 24, 2013 16:45 JST
- Tags: Animals, Bizarre, China, Guro, Jiangsu, Made in China, Medical
A Chinese farm breeding cockroaches to make into medicines has released a million of its charges into the local neigbhbourhood after being attacked as part of a development land grab.
According to the Chinese media, a Jiangsu province facility breeding cockroaches for “medicinal” purposes has been at the centre of a (by Chinese standards) minor public health scandal after its livestock escaped en masse.
The greenhouse housing the roaches was reportedly destroyed by persons unknown, letting approximately 1 million of the insects escape.
Local authorities have begun attempting to exterminate the escapees, and insists to the p “there is no reason for people to panic.”
There is some suspicion officials themselves destroyed the farm as part of a China style property development deal, but the local government assures the public that “we didn’t do it.”
Just what medicines the cockroaches were being used to produce is not known.
Online there has been some speculation about this point in particular:
“God, don’t breed them!”
“Sick!”
“I don’t even want to think what they were breeding them for…”
“I was hoping they were just using them as lab animals but no such luck.”
“What medicine were they making that it used millions of roaches as a raw ingredient?”
“They were probably eating them. You just know they were…”
“That there was some rotten land deal involved as well is just pure China.”
“At least it was better than the 1,000 alligators which escaped in a storm there recently…”
“Hopefully it was just traditional medicine!”
“I expect they were used in some dodgy supplements or something.”
“This is naive. I expect they were mincing them and selling them as meat… I couldn’t stand to go in a mainland restaurant.”
“I think they released them deliberately in order to help terraform China into habitability again.”
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I was literally just reading that cockroach chapter of Franken Fran too.
Hmm... so basically that neighborhood probably won't see anything different?
Yeah, aside from a million cockroaches that is. And the people fleeing in panic at the sight of them.
I think he means that the area already has propably ~100 million of them so 1% more won't be much of a difference...
[please insert definition of sarcasm here]
Cockroach Grenades waiting to go BOOM!
BTOOOM! you said?
What's next? "China menaced by exploding cockroaches(?)"
I actually read it as "China menaced by exploding cockroach farm!" Well, the end result isn't much different, cockroaches are pretty much immortal so one little explosion wouldn't hurt them.
Sounds like an idea for a new weapon.
America developed exploding bats during WW2, but result was meh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
looks like a link to something batman related
I think Clooney Batman used one in "Batman and Robin".
Now imagine that same project, but with roaches.
They gave up on the bat bomb because the atomic bomb was developed before the bat bomb could be deployed.
Ben Afflek will be the new exploding bat.
What an awful choice to play the Batman!
They had that story on that show hosted by Denethor.
Sssshhhh... Prism is watching.
It will scare lolis so hard they will faint, and then you can take them, lolicon Zura.
but if a roach is immortal, when it explodes does it die or does it crawl to its next location reloading?
Who needs a farm when you can breed them in your house without even noticing.
I couldn't have said it better myself
Liking the Gokicha pic! I've only ever seen the first two episodes subbed into English, is there any more out there?
What the fudge does this have to do with the guy you're responding to?
Same thing as industrial style farming and owning 4 chickens yourself.
My cockroach, I send him out, all the girls scream and shout?!
Yuck
Teraformars...
In other news, local food vendors in Jiangsu province celebrate a newly discovered 'meat' dish. Called Placebo-de-roacho, it is often served with birds nest noodles (nylon filament) swimming in a vegetable broth (local river waste). Noted for it's crunchy appeal and protein content, it's also been marketed as a cure-all. The curative effects are predominantly from it's high toxicity which in turn kills every living organism in a body with mild to severe liver trauma.
I think they are farmed for food, and those aren't your regular house cockroaches, but those huge roaches with pillbug-ish exoskeletons, like the ones from Madagascar. Which is why they farmed it.
What kind of medicine uses cockroaches........
What kind of medicine uses cockroaches........
China-Quality medicine.
I don't know either, but I'm sure young boys' urine is one of its other ingredients, since it finds its way into pretty much any traditional Chinese medicine.
Since you asked, the tu bie chong (wingless cockroach) is used in a Chinese herbal medicine to alleviate amenorrhea, the absence of a menstrual period in a woman of child-bearing age.
The day this site drops it Japanese nationalist and anti-China/Korea bullshit will be a very good day. Not everyone who enjoys watching anime and reading manga masturbates over Imperial Japan and cockheads like Shinzo Abe. Miyazaki for the win.
Not everyone, but the majority. No point in complaining about the Sankakucomplex commercial policy. If I were the writer for sankaku, I would too manipulate news like they do. It's understandable.
i think they just translate random stories from japanese news sites. I don't think any "research" goes into these stories.
Translated news found by browsing 2chan? Also, Sankaku keeps posting these stuff because you guys give it ten times more attentin than posts about that funny anime or that new figure.
I don't see how "reporting on unusual events that happen to take place within a country" constitutes being anti-that-country bullshit.
The day the Chinese stop doing corrupt or stupid shit is the day this site stops highlighting that crap.
So, are any of those cockroaches exploding? HaHaHa, good one.
I guess they are planning to make them bigger and are preparing them for a nuke war...
It's time for JOHJ?
While the rest of the world is trying to exterminate the little pests, China is breeding them. Can't they get ANYTHING right?
There a different types of roaches. A roach is only as clean as the environment it lives in.
They want to create banelings
We need to deploy army of HoiHoi-san's ASAP !
"China menaced by exploding bootleg Hoihois!"
Strike Roaches
I think even Strike Witches can't handle the 1 million members of Strike Roaches
Cockroaches are used to test and produce medicines because their immune systems are among the strongest there are, so you can test things on them without them dying quickly. Various labs pay people to capture live cockroaches, you just don't see it on TV because - who would air such a commercial? If you go to a local pest control center, someone there knows who buys cockroaches.
We could also use vultures for this, but you see the problem in raising a vulture to adult age just for this.