Giant Snails Could Address Malnutrition
Eh? I mean, snails are in direct competition with vegans for vegetables. Surely they could see their way towards letting people eat them.

And kids preferred the Snail pie to Beef pie!


I would eat 'em! I've had escargot before, thought it was very tasty. Might take me awhile to get used to it but I'd definitely do it.


Maybe I should raise giant snails. It might satisfy the itch I have for animal husbandry.

Nothing wrong with snail. It's a bit like a land shrimp.

Although, I would hazard to say that a lot of vegan would object strenously. I knew a vegan once that wouldn't eat popcorn because the dye used in some popcorn was made from the crushed shells of insects.

Mmmmm, cochineal extract. I saw some guy on PBS talking about traditional weaving and he tossed some dried cochineals in a mortar & pestle to show his class. They've been used in dyes for centuries.

I'm not buying the "healthy" angle. Sounds like they think snails are healthy because they're low in fat but high in PUFAs. No thanks. Linoleic acid is the problem, not the solution.

I wonder if they'd be higher in omega-3 if they were fed on grass. Grass-fed, free range snails.

Over 100 years ago, we had grass fed free range cattle tended by grown men called "cowboys".

Can you imagine herds of free range snail, tended by "snailboys".

Maybe in the spirit of sexual equality, there could be "snailgirls" too.

Really, the only thing I could taste in Escargot was the garlic butter. Everything tastes better with garlic butter!

I have an idea. You know all those animals that PETA kills every year, to "save them" from the horror of becoming someone's beloved pet? How about the vegans eat THEM? After all, the ultimate vegan organization is killing them anyway, so it's not like they are dying for food! In fact it would be a great respect to make their otherwise pointless deaths go to SOME good use. Quick visit to chinatown probably has no end of great recipes for cat and dog (at least so one of my chinese friends once assured me!).

PJ

WHAT!!! PJ, I missed that chapter! PETA is killing animals to "save" them from becoming someone's pet? Are they all totally mad??? (well, don't answer that one! )

The dogma is transparent. I guess that's why snail is traditionally served with melted butter. But that's escargots, you say. What's the difference, I say. They're both slugs. The point is, every recipe I know of made of lean meats almost always include some form of fat, and lots of it, in which we dip, lather on, cook, bake, broil, etc, the meat. Every recipe that tastes good, I mean.

I have to wonder just how warped our view of food is when the emphasis is put on protein and away from fat.

Be sure to cook them properly. Check out the Lighter side of Death episode of 1000 Ways to Die. Apparently eating them raw can be a wee bit dangerous.

Maybe snails are a safer or more nutritious protein alternative to what I've heard some impoverished Africans have to eat--rodents. Easier to catch, at least.

I dunno, I'd rather have hyrax than snail.

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=404116

I used to catch and purge snails. I'd fed them only carrots for a week or so, then wrap those suckers in bacon I've been trying to start a snail husbandry project in NYC, but most of the experts are in Europe. It's easy enough to catch wild ones, but raising and breeding them yourself is much harder. I put that I was interested in them in one of my social networking NYC profiles and I get emails about it more than I expected. There is lots of interest in these sorts of things....maybe it's the recession?

BTW there are a bunch of other cool small animal husbandry things going on in urban areas of the US. It's not just chickens and bees....rabbits and tilapia are getting some serious attention. They are the perfect companions for urban gardens...they eat waste quite efficiently and poop out manure.

I prefer to take snails, slugs and other creepy crawly things and feed them to my ducks. They then convert these icky things in to eggs and meat. One of the advantages of being higher on the food chain....I DON'T HAVE TO EAT SLUGS!!! LOL

By the way, every time I see the title of this thread I want to argue with it. I know quite a few vegans, and none of them would consider slugs a morally acceptable food. Some of them won't even eat honey.

But you were probably joking, weren't you?