A 37-year-old woman in China has one of the world’s dirtiest jobs – she breeds cockroaches.
It is estimated that within her home there are more than 100,000 cockroaches.
Yuan Meixia cares for the roaches and then eventually she sells them to a pharmaceutical company, which uses the bugs for medicines.
“These are all my children, my babies,” Yuan told a local newspaper.
Yuan resides at a separate home in Siqian county in China but visits the breeding house, in a nearby village, everyday.
Yuan started her house by purchasing 20 kg of live cockroaches. She then went on a course to find out how to raise them.
The breeding house has silk nets in the place of doors and she seals any hole where the insects can possibly escape.
Many people in China believe that the bug can act as an anti-cancer drug. But there is no scientific proof for that claim.
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25 Responses
that is the grossest thing in the world
Eww yuck!
That disgusting who would live in a house like that.
It is so disgusting
Ow yuck sick
What if some of the roaches come in the kitchen and jump in the food
that is soooooooooo gross
Ewww… I mean like how would do that 😛
That is sooooooooooooooooo gross
yuk!
So grossest thing i ever seen in my life
ew that just discusting
I am scared of you
uuuuu yuck
yuck how sick
how many are there
it was a bit weird but good for her P.S YUCK
Yuck that is gross
That is horrible
O_O that’s a lot of roaches.
eww i hate roaches they are totes gross i am scared of them
AWSOME
i hate roaches
I want to breed cockroaches now!!!! Haha nope I don’t
one word. C.O.O.L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!