Hou Songfeng in the concrete mausoleum-like breeding room of his scorpion-raising facility: Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new addition to China's burgeoning market economy. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building; Songfeng would like to expand his market into the United States, Luoyang, China. (page 94, 95) .