'Like a horror movie': my day in a Chinese cockroach factory


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Xichang, China: It is like a scene from a horror movie. A door opens to a dark room, and in the beam of a torchlight, you see them. Hundreds of cockroaches, moving up the side of cupboards, and across the floor.


It’s about to get worse.


Breeding manager Ying Xiong steps inside and, with bare hands, pulls a cardboard square from a long row of racks. She drops it into a large bowl on the ground, which seems to explode into a churning maelstrom of glistening brown. Thousands of cockroaches stream out.


Staff members at the world's largest cockroach farm, the Good Doctor Pharmaceutical Group in Xichang City, China.

Staff members at the world’s largest cockroach farm, the Good Doctor Pharmaceutical Group in Xichang City, China.


Photo: Sanghee Liu

They rush up her arms and over her back. Her long, black ponytail is soon crawling with cockroaches. There is one on her ear. They scramble inside her white lab coat.


I jump back.


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