Selling Flies is Big Business.

Posted by Alex in Animal on March 19, 2007 at 10:23 pm


Chinese college graduate Ai Baorong tried to find a normal job, but couldn’t get one, so she decided to get into the fly business. Yes, the business of growing and selling housefly maggots!

Baorong has since started to breed houseflies. Each maggot contains 60% protein, 15% fat, but also has some vitamins, and its protein nutritional value is several times higher compared to animal protein.

After the cleansing, deodorization and dehydration processes, the concentrated protein can be used for the production of soy sauce and MSG – which makes it a product with great market value.

Presently, Ai Baorong’s insect cultivation base has already achieved a monthly stock of 30 tons of live insects, with customers from Korea and the United Kingdom.

Spluch has the story: Link


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7 comments to "Selling Flies is Big Business."

  1. Denita TwoDragons
    March 19th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

    ..."can be used for the production of soy sauce and MSG..."

    I have this sudden urge to toss all my Asian condiments in the garbage now. *retch*

    --TwoDragons

  2. Ali
    March 20th, 2007 at 12:46 am

    @TwoDragons

    I have to admit I'm grossed out too. Ick! But isn't MSG illegal? :o

  3. Aramax
    March 20th, 2007 at 1:00 am

    When they will create super bugs of ginormous proportions the animal activist will protest against such farming.

    I wonder what they are thinking right now...

  4. Denita TwoDragons
    March 20th, 2007 at 1:33 am

    Not here in the States, Ali. But it's becoming rapidly unpopular, given all the bad reactions some people have to it. I know that if I have too much, it gives me blinding headaches and asthma attacks. And a very dear friend of mine is SO allergic to it, he goes into anaphylactic shock if there's so much as a trace of it in his food. So a lot of food companies and Asian restaurants are taking it out of their products. To which I say Thank Goodness!

    --TwoDragons

  5. Alex
    March 20th, 2007 at 2:37 am

    Think that's gross? Try this one: secret ingredient of some soy sauce.

  6. Ali
    March 21st, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    @TwoDragons

    Oh! So that's why alot of Chinese restaurants have that neon sign "No MSG"!

    @Alex

    O_O That's disgusting!! Why can't they just stick to Soy!?

  7. Tom p
    March 22nd, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    that is very nasty i will think twice before eating soy sauce again!!


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