This is what it's like to walk into a building filled with a billion cockroaches

For a final assignment to cap a five-year posting to China, I never would have chosen this.

This is a roach nest on a massive scale: four industrial-size hangars packed with rows and an elaborate pipe system that pumps food waste collected from restaurants onto the shelves for the roaches to eat.The lights are off, the temperature is maintained in the high 20s and the humidity is stifling. "We can replace animal feeds filled with antibiotics and instead supply organic feed, which is good for the animals and the ground soil."

They help to ensure the billion or so cockroaches inside don't break out and wreak havoc on the fields nearby.Largely seen as a pest to be eradicated elsewhere, cockroaches are lucrative money-earners for an estimated 100 cockroach farmers across China.

Wow! Much more efficient than what we do in neoliberal Australia. Pay a landlord $2000/month to live among them.

This is how it starts. First its that cockroach farms are good for the environment, next that they are good for animal feed, and once they're all set up here, they'll start saying that they should be fed to us proles because theyre so nutritious. The peoples republic of aus!

great way to get rid of kitchen waste & feed poultry. Doubt can find anyone in australia to do in the farm though.

I’m not sure I needed to read that article nightmares There is something just wrong and creepy about the entire process 🤔😳🤢

Thanks a lot ABC. I'm having breakfast 😑

Anyone who lives in Newtown already knows what it’s like.

Get out of my house!!

No.

I recon it’s like walking into a regular building. But with a billion cockroaches instead of none.

Did you really have to commission this piece: some of us won't sleep tonight 🥴🤮

Don’t look at my bio 🙊👠

wait - I didn’t let anyone into my apartment - no visitors at all because of Covid and all that...

A tour of Parliament House?

You mean walking into chatswood with all them asians

Snowpiecer the movie 🍿

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