Woman Has 100,000 Cockroaches – Says They Are Her Family

[Ptarmigan]

Woman Has 100,000 Cockroaches – Says They Are Her Family
http://now100fm.cbslocal.com/2014/06/13/woman-has-100000-cockroaches-says-they-are-her-family/

Most people hate cockroaches and would do just about anything to keep them out of their homes. But that is not the case for one woman. The South China Morning Post is reporting that Yuan Meixia in China shares her home with 100,000 cockroaches, which she considers her children.

She breeds them and raises them so she can sell them to a pharmaceutical company, which uses them for medicine.  She lives in separate home, but visits the breeding home everyday. She was inspired to start breeding them after she saw a program on television which talked about their potential healing properties.

The breeding house has silk nets instead of doors, and all holes have been cemented to ensure that no roaches escape. Yuan keeps the house at a set temperature with a gas stove during the winter and by putting water on the walls during the summer.

Sounds like that Rat Girl in San Francisco.

[Revolution]

Disgusting.

[vesta111]

Disgusting.

How so, the woman has a farm for needed roaches in some business that will buy them.

I see you never been fishing and stopped to buy big plump earth worms that some 10 year old raised in 50 gallon bucket.  $1.00 per pound,  washed and sorted.

Most Blood worms come from the Mud in up state Maine.   Interesting hobby and the tax free money comes in handy.

Here is a good one for you, up in Maine the tourest's buy Moose Poop that is collected and made into Jewerly .

[SVPete]

Actually what she's doing makes sense, as long as you don't think about what kind of medicine would have cockroaches as an ingredient.

[freedumb2003b]

Actually what she's doing makes sense, as long as you don't think about what kind of medicine would have cockroaches as an ingredient.

They use them as test subjects, particularly for radiation-based therapies.

[SVPete]

They use them as test subjects, particularly for radiation-based therapies.

That's not how I understood this sentence in the linked CBS article:

She breeds them and raises them so she can sell them to a pharmaceutical company, which uses them for medicine.