[Ccpg] Re: slugs, snails

[seedmind at usa.net]

"Nina Gelman-Gans" <nina at pitome.com> wrote:

> pick the slugs up by hand at night. Then throw them in the garbage. It 
takes
> time, but it does reduce the population.
> I've done this very successfully with snails.
> Nina
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Try not to put living organisms in the garbage. 

they are good food for chickens and others (including frogs who eat 
prodigious amounts of slugs). 

if you let snails live on a bed of organic corn meal or something like 
that for a few days, it cleans them out and makes them tasty for human 
consumption. In santa barbara they're usually the fancy "escargot" served 
in French restaurants. maybe you can sell your free-range, organic 
wildcrafted local snails to a restaurant or trade them for meals.

sorry orthodox jews, snails ain't kosher. i feed them to the chickens and 
then eat the kosher chicken eggs. you can fashion cooked egg as "mock 
snail" and thus have a kosher way to eat snails via chickens. 

if you get a lot of eggs, you can fashion a really big mock slug or 
snail, name it, and have a ritual feast with all your friends paying 
homage to these humble and protein-rich creatures which you'd you'd never 
throw in the garbage.

bon appetit!
akiva werbalowsky