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This Chinese cockroach farm houses a billion roaches, kept contained by a moat filled with hungry fish – ABC News
It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a giant, dark, steamy hangar filled with a billion cockroaches feeding off food scraps. But these roaches are not just household pests, they could be the key to more sustainable farming and reducing landfill.
For a final assignment to cap a five-year posting to China, I never would have chosen this.
But deep inside a cavernous setup of tight corridors and shelves, I’m standing in the dark, sweating profusely as the rain-like sound of millions of cockroaches eating fills the silence.
It’s a peaceful ambience that would go well on one of those calming sleep apps.
Everything else about the situation would probably keep people awake.
Around me on walls, the ceiling and floors, cockroaches large a…
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