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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Mar 20 07 07:41

Title: The Business Of Flies
Post by: TehBorken on Mar 20 07 07:41
What do you do when you can't find a normal job? You go into business for yourself. Chinese college grad Ai Baorong couldn't find a job, so she made one up...the [a href="vny!://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/breeding-flies-as-global-business.html"]business of selling flies[/a]. Specifically, housefly maggots.
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Baorong breeds houseflies and their maggots. 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.The concentrated protein can be used for the production of soy sauce and MSG - a product with great market value.

Full Story: [a href="vny!://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/breeding-flies-as-global-business.html"]vny!://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/breeding-flies-as-global-business.html[/a]

 
Title: Re: The Business Of Flies
Post by: Lil Me on Mar 20 07 07:53
that pic in the full story is hmmm...interesting.  the one with the fly net in her living room where she sits eating dinner.  yowza.
Title: Re: The Business Of Flies
Post by: kingy on Mar 20 07 10:35
they make soy sauce from maggots??
Title: Re: The Business Of Flies
Post by: Lil Me on Mar 22 07 06:59
sure gives new meaning to "chicken fly lice" at your neighbourhood smorg.