Maggots Eat Away China's Food Waste Problem at Fly Farms Across the Nation

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[Steely Tom]

Between 1958 and 1962, Chairman Mao initiated the "Four Pests" campaign, against rats, flies, mosquitos, and sparrows.

When the Chinese population went after the Eurasian tree sparrow, they pretty much wiped it out. The resulting explosion in the insect population, particularly of locusts, was a major factor in causing the Great Chinese Famine, which killed between 25 and 40 million people.

[luvbach1]

Insect feces for fertilizer..er, well, OK; chicken sh_t for fish food on fish farms, well, no.

[DuncanWaring]

I’ve seen a suggestion to use maggots from harvested road-kill as chicken feed.

The suggestion included an admonition not to do this near inhabited buildings.

[Atomic Vomit]

Probably no more efficient disease vector than Chinese flies.

“Did you want flies with that?”

Mrs. AV

[lee martell]

Larval feces? Uhh, no. Larva in any form, wriggling and alive or freeze-dried? Sure, maybe as waste management, maybe even to remove dead skin from burn victims, but never, never on my dinner plate or sneaked into my granola bars.
Bugs are already being used to feed caged pets such as lizards, snakes and turtles.

[Gman]

No. Fries.

[Organic Panic]

The EU will allow insect protein as feed in fish farms

Thank God the fish finally have government permission to eat insect protein.

[FateAmenableToChange]

To get a really good famine going, you always need government assistance.

[chajin]

You have to look at this from another angle,” said Hu Rong...

I don't know; they might be, or we might be.

[Atomic Vomit]

Hu Rong?

Not me.

Mrs. AV

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

That would make an awesome tag line.

[Mercat]

They make great bait. Wax worms.

[Ransomed]

Soldier flies are good for compost piles/bins, especially if you throw protein scraps in it. If I recall the larvae supposedly bite, these aren’t like regular house fly maggots. The adult flies are harmless and live only a few days. They sort of look like little black bees more than house flies.

Freegards

[WKUHilltopper]

Maggots? China has demoncraps too?

[Atomic Vomit]

Flies stick in my craw.

[caltaxed]

Herding flies sounds like a tough job.

Not something I would attempt even in my youth.

[digger48]

Got to be better than the guy who has to pick up the fly poop

[tumblindice]

I hit bluegill with meal worms and it was like a cartoon, pulling them in one after another. Big CA suckers.