A friend and I were contemplating whether common snails were the same as the kind of snails you would get at a french restaurant (escargot), when I started thinking about whether or not other things, like slugs, were edible.
Then, I found this: http://rickshawunschooling.blogspot.com/2007/10/wild-food-killing-our-own-meat.html
Would you eat a banana slug? Would they, or snails, be worth cultivating as a food source after SHTF?
p.s. Another website on edible mollusks (http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_terrestrial_one.html) posted this:
Caution:
It is important to clean out and treat the snails before cooking it, as snails may eat carrion and fungi. These could contain toxins and be harmful to man.
CAUTION! Be very careful before deciding to use the snails from your own back yard or front yard for your next dinner party. Try to ascertain if anyone has used snail bait for eradication of snails in you neighborhood.
Your neighbor's may be using snail poison. These snails could then migrate to your yard. REMEMBER! Some snails may only contain very small amounts of poison; so small as to not be lethal to the snail-but there may be enough residual poison that if you consumed enough of these snails IT COULD KILL YOU!
If in doubt, Please choose to be snail smart and buy your escargot from a reliable source or collect in known safe areas. These snails are a major pest and many areas use posions; So, PLEASE BEWARE!
Then, I found this: http://rickshawunschooling.blogspot.com/2007/10/wild-food-killing-our-own-meat.html
Would you eat a banana slug? Would they, or snails, be worth cultivating as a food source after SHTF?
p.s. Another website on edible mollusks (http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_terrestrial_one.html) posted this:
Caution:
It is important to clean out and treat the snails before cooking it, as snails may eat carrion and fungi. These could contain toxins and be harmful to man.
CAUTION! Be very careful before deciding to use the snails from your own back yard or front yard for your next dinner party. Try to ascertain if anyone has used snail bait for eradication of snails in you neighborhood.
Your neighbor's may be using snail poison. These snails could then migrate to your yard. REMEMBER! Some snails may only contain very small amounts of poison; so small as to not be lethal to the snail-but there may be enough residual poison that if you consumed enough of these snails IT COULD KILL YOU!
If in doubt, Please choose to be snail smart and buy your escargot from a reliable source or collect in known safe areas. These snails are a major pest and many areas use posions; So, PLEASE BEWARE!