This Cockroach Farm Houses Billions Of Roaches Contained By A Moat With Hungry Fish

September 20, 2020

This might be a place of nightmares for most -- but it's actually a brilliant idea.

A Chinese pharmaceutical company breeds six billion cockroaches a year in a facility surrounded by a moat. The roaches, which can eat up to 50 tons a day, are fed with food waste collected by restaurants.

Roaches are rich in protein and are used by the Chinese in medicine, cosmetics, livestock feed, and even fertilizer.