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Old 04-20-2018, 06:37 AM
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An indoor cockroach farm in Xichang, China, is producing 6 billioncockroaches per year. Using artificial intelligence technology to manage nearly 28,000 roaches per square foot, the company produces potions that purport to provide medical benefits. Local residents near the facility worry about the ecological catastrophe that would result from a breach at the factory, operated by the Gooddoctor Pharmaceutical Group.
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Old 04-20-2018, 06:47 AM
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So, now we need to encourage them to breed white rhinos, and elephants and Rosewood so the black markets in their horns, tusks and the tonewood could collapse.

Of course life isn't that simple.
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Old 04-20-2018, 07:54 AM
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Why are they producing cockroaches? Seems to me cockroaches produce themselves quite effectively. I don't blame the locals for worrying about it.

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Old 04-20-2018, 07:58 AM
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OK, I just reread the post and saw the part about medical potions. Maybe this something that should be done in a remote location. I certainly wouldn't want to live near it.

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Old 04-20-2018, 08:12 AM
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Years ago I lived in an old wood frame house out in the boonies. You would have thought we were running a cockroach farm!

I could not work in that place. Nope, just couldn't do it.
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Sounds like a horror movie plot
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Old 04-20-2018, 11:05 AM
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Sounds like a horror movie plot
I not sure anyone outside of China would accept the premise that cockroaches are being raised to create some type of medicinal item../
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Old 04-20-2018, 03:27 PM
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You should see it when the brand them.
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I saw a documentary that was similar:

Apparently horseshoe crab is actually really blue because of the copper content in it. In this blood is some sort of enzyme (or maybe it was a hormone) that is important for cardiac medicine.

They have a farm of these and they painlessly take a vial of blood from each and let them swim around and replenish naturally.

But it was kinda creepy to see so many of these things and hooked up to tubes.
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Guess this is the time to mention medicinal leeches .
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China could be producing the ultimate weapon in their quest to take over the world, Cockroach armies trained to infiltrate their enemies.
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