Inside a Chinese Cockroach Farm

The Telegraph ^ | Malcolm Moore

[nickcarraway]

The correct way to eat a cockroach, at least in this corner of northern China, is to fry it not once but twice in a wok of smoking hot oil.

The cockroach, whose innards resemble cottage cheese, has an earthy taste, with a slight twinge of ammonia. But they have become popular in China not for their taste, but for their medicinal benefits.

"They really are a miracle drug," said Liu Yusheng, a professor at the Shandong Agricultural university and the head of Shandong province's Insect Association. "They can cure a number of ailments and they work much faster than other medicine."

For a decade, Mr Wang farmed another type of insect, Eupolyphaga Sinensis, which is also used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

But in the past two years, the demand for cockroaches has soared, and Mr Wang has switched his entire production to Periplaneta americana, or the American cockroach, a copper-coloured insect that grows to just over an inch and a half.

[Utilizer]

Oh yeah, forgot about the crabs...

[GraceG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nQMgaJibc

[AngelesCrestHighway]

F.Y.I. - Free range for a cockroach is:

[GraceG]

[GraceG]

We should GM modify Lobsters and cray fish to live out of water, and call them land lobsters....

However I think scorpions do tast like lobster supposedly...

[Vigilanteman]

Some say the same about crawdads and shrimp.

Shrimp are basically the buzzards of the sea world. But they sure are tasty!

[Utilizer]

Not sure about the scorpions, but I understand that people do eat snakes and sometimes tarantulas so I suppose it is possible.

[Utilizer]

Actually I believe that distinction falls more readily to the crabs, but I am with you on the shrimp tastiness.

I still eat shrimp on occasion, but ever since it was pointed out some time ago how lobsters had most of the characteristics of all other insects, I have not been able to eat one again.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They call crawdads ‘mud bugs’ down in Louisiana. I’ve seen the nasty water they come out of and no thank you.

[Hot Tabasco]

It’s gross, but insects may be the solution to world hunger.

So is dog poop.......one sniff and you lose any appetite you may have had.