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7/11/2025, 1:09:01 AM
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The US's biggest native snail is like the size of a quarter, and because of that they're not really available from farms or as pets, you'd have to fly to Tennessee and search for one. The domesticated snails from Europe are the ones mainly eaten, but they're off-limits in the US since they cause so much property damage and even one escapee from a farm can lay thousands of eggs under the soil. African snails are smuggled in to be exotic pets, as for some reason exotic pet owners are all maliciously criminal and cause issues everywhere they go.
In theory snails are a much better option to eat than slugs because they can be removed from their shell, while slugs have an internal shell under their skin that would need to be cut out. They're all easy to raise in mass quantities, apart from their calcium needs (they are constantly pursuing it and will eat each other to get it). They're full of parasites though, which might be fine if processed for humans, but it's such an ecological nightmare waiting to happen that it really can't be justified, even if you ignore the obvious harm to crops and structures.
In China they eat mystery snails (freshwater river snails), but that would be even more nightmarish than a plague of parasites if they got out. I've also seen no evidence that people actually want to eat this; it's just used for soup and they're not really a source of flavor, they're flavored by the soup. No matter how open-minded I want to be, snails are just really shit actually. The security effort needed to contain them is certainly not worth the resulting meat no matter how easy it is to raise them. All you can really hope to do is import canned snails from Europe.
The US's biggest native snail is like the size of a quarter, and because of that they're not really available from farms or as pets, you'd have to fly to Tennessee and search for one. The domesticated snails from Europe are the ones mainly eaten, but they're off-limits in the US since they cause so much property damage and even one escapee from a farm can lay thousands of eggs under the soil. African snails are smuggled in to be exotic pets, as for some reason exotic pet owners are all maliciously criminal and cause issues everywhere they go.
In theory snails are a much better option to eat than slugs because they can be removed from their shell, while slugs have an internal shell under their skin that would need to be cut out. They're all easy to raise in mass quantities, apart from their calcium needs (they are constantly pursuing it and will eat each other to get it). They're full of parasites though, which might be fine if processed for humans, but it's such an ecological nightmare waiting to happen that it really can't be justified, even if you ignore the obvious harm to crops and structures.
In China they eat mystery snails (freshwater river snails), but that would be even more nightmarish than a plague of parasites if they got out. I've also seen no evidence that people actually want to eat this; it's just used for soup and they're not really a source of flavor, they're flavored by the soup. No matter how open-minded I want to be, snails are just really shit actually. The security effort needed to contain them is certainly not worth the resulting meat no matter how easy it is to raise them. All you can really hope to do is import canned snails from Europe.
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