Snails anyone!

[kenc45]

Although I can't find where I read it now, I read that snails 'shut down' at certain temperatures. I think the top temp was either 30 or 35 degrees C. So they'd be shut down most days for over half the year up here. Not sure that it's worth it until I move south again.

[Hamish]

They also shut down in cold weather. In fact they need to shut down in cold weather to continue the breeding cycle. Some farms put them in a fridge to put them into hybernation so they will breed again.

[djs-sa]

hamish r u looking at eating them? or ur fish?
cockle would be better than snail if u r eating them

[djs-sa]

hamish r u looking at eating them? or are ur fish?
cockle would be better than snail if u r eating them

[Hamish]

Im actually a vegetarian so not keen to eat them myself. However the fish love snails Im also interested in them as a commercial crop when I get some land.

If the s#it hits the fan the way I think it is going to in the world - and food becomes too expensive to buy - then I think I will convert to eating fish, snails, rabits and anything else I can lay my hands on or grow easily.

I am learning all I can now so that if things go belly up in the world I will be able to survive and perhaps teach others (friends and family) to do the same.

Some people think I am paranoid - I think they are just uninformed as I was a few years ago.

[RODOLFO]

Snails...escargots...there is...are delicous...with butter, garlic, parsley and a little bread crumbs ...to the oven and VOILA!!!

If you produce lettuce and other leafy veggies...you haev a good meal for your Escargots.

Is in my master plan... together with mushrooms and iguanas

[hellbent]

you eat iguanas?

[RODOLFO]

Well I particularly dont eat iguanas, but in my country many people eat them.
Inclusive they eat the eggs of iguana. They opened the female and take the eggs from inside. Then the iguana or garrobo like they know it at home (I am not sure if they are the same, probably a different specie) is stiched back and let them go.
I found this practices very cruel, since the animal might die with a painful dead, due to infections. But it is a practice among the farmers in the poorest part of the country.
I have been in a bush restaurant were they prepared iguana, like chichen nuggets or chicken breast. Is not like they will bring you the animal barbequed. They prepared only the meat.
In the same restauran a friend of mine from Guatemala, ordered iguana and armadillo and ate them both...myself I prefer beef, pork or fish.

I have been in Louisiana were I ate American alligator tail, in Australia I ate kangaroo tail, In Mexico I ate turtle soup and in El Salvador I ate the turtle eggs, raw, with salt, lime and Worcestershire sauce...

I lived and work in Africa...were people eats monkey, bushmeat (a giant water rat) antelope, snake, dog...everything

Inclusive it is know that in ritualistic tribal ceremonies there are tribes that eat human beings or at least parts of humans, mostly there enemies.

This is well know and is a common practice in the past all over the West Africa region

I know this is the XXI century...but humans are after all humans...

In my case I will sell the iguanas as pets to the North American or European markets. Mostly the green iguana it is very appreciated. Myself found it repugnant.

[RODOLFO]

Im actually a vegetarian so not keen to eat them myself. However the fish love snails Im also interested in them as a commercial crop when I get some land.

If the s#it hits the fan the way I think it is going to in the world - and food becomes too expensive to buy - then I think I will convert to eating fish, snails, rabits and anything else I can lay my hands on or grow easily.

I am learning all I can now so that if things go belly up in the world I will be able to survive and perhaps teach others (friends and family) to do the same.

Some people think I am paranoid - I think they are just uninformed as I was a few years ago.

What do you think is going to happen?
I have my ideas too...but I am not sure...seems like the world is getting worse, in the envinromental sense...but I do not think that my generation is going to be hit with the problems that the next generation will contront.
By the time my youngest son is my age...I can see that probably the s**t will be hitting the fan or very closed to do so...

[hellbent]

Well I particularly dont eat iguanas, but in my country many people eat them.
Inclusive they eat the eggs of iguana. They opened the female and take the eggs from inside. Then the iguana or garrobo like they know it at home (I am not sure if they are the same, probably a different specie) is stiched back and let them go.
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In my case I will sell the iguanas as pets to the North American or European markets. Mostly the green iguana it is very appreciated. Myself found it repugnant.

interesting, i didnt know they were edible. i guess just about anything is edible, but i didnt know anyone ate them.