Re:This bothers me (Score 1)

just think about cooking shows. Pretty much every single ingredient used - apart from salt and water, is the result of the death of a living thing, and its done for your hedonistic pleasure. Cockroaches perform a valuable role in the ecosystem - especially the mangled urban environment, but they breed fast enough that the loss is insignificant. Of course it would be better to kill something totally worthless, like American Idol contestants, but the myth they are testing refers specifically to cockroaches.