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Post by helix on Nov 24, 2007 11:12:02 GMT
There was another thing like this in another thread, except with GALS.. It's horrible, but it happens. Renamed. - CroSSLeSS
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vikingsnail
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Post by vikingsnail on Nov 24, 2007 15:28:54 GMT
I haven't looked at the link because I'm not too sure I wanna see it, but I can guess what it is from the name... Apart from the fact I keep snails as pets so wouldn't want to eat them - I just don't get why people would eat them... they don't exactly look appealing It's horrible
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Arno
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Post by Arno on Nov 24, 2007 16:19:28 GMT
It certainly looks so.......Was a bit puzzled by the sentence:"I boil them gently for ten minutes" ....how do you gently boil a living snail I wonder?
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Nov 24, 2007 19:48:06 GMT
I just don't get why people would eat them... they don't exactly look appealing Some people will eat anything "weird" if they think it will make them look macho or sophisticated or whatever. And I suppose there are some people who eat them because they happen to like the way they taste.
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Rachel
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Post by Rachel on Nov 25, 2007 14:01:23 GMT
Thats sick, and i'm not just speaking as the "mum" of 15 helix aspera, i'm speaking as a vegan. I now officially feel ill
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Post by manxminx on Nov 25, 2007 16:22:49 GMT
Snail risotto, Yum !
Sorry, but I don't see what's wrong with eating snails. Not something I'd do, but I love eating cow, pig, baby sheep, chicken, duck, different types of fish (including shellfish) etc.
How many of you who say YuK to the snail risotto eat other animals?
Don't be such hypocrites!
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Nov 25, 2007 19:11:31 GMT
How many of you who say YuK to the snail risotto eat other animals? I for one am not being hypocritical when I say Yuk to snail risotto because I choose to be a strict vegetarian. I don't eat any kind of animal, period. Not even eggs. So I'd say Yuk to any kind of risotto, unless it used only plant-based ingredients.
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vikingsnail
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Post by vikingsnail on Nov 26, 2007 12:07:10 GMT
I'm fine with people eating pretty much any kind of animal - but aslong as they're killed humanely. And I don't think boiling alive is humane...
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Post by vikingsnail on Nov 26, 2007 18:04:39 GMT
I think it depends on the type of meat, for me at least. Our bodies are built for dealing with meat, but the animals we eat should at least be treated with a bit of respect. For example, I don't eat lobster, and I never would (not just because I don't like fish) but they can live to like, 100 years old, and they're not exactly killed in the most humane way either.... if you live by the sea, and it's your natural food source then fine - the idea of fancy resturants having a tank of them for you to choose from is just horrible...
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Post by Wayne on Dec 13, 2007 12:50:48 GMT
My father travels around quite a bit so I get some interesting holidays and try some different foods :-) (South Korea and China recently)
Anyhoo one time I tried escargot at a restarant with my father and yeh it was ok. I couldn't eat it now tho after having Snails as pets... well it would be like eating Cat or Dog!
(actually I accidently ate dog in Korea :-( didn't know what it was... bleugh!)
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Post by whodoesntlovesnails on Jan 9, 2008 4:59:50 GMT
my eyes went wide when i read this. this is discusting! my mom has eaten escargo and i showed her this and even she was grossed out
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Post by spook on Jan 11, 2008 20:30:19 GMT
They don't even look appetising!!!
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Post by helikulo on Jan 12, 2008 19:53:14 GMT
Apart from anything else these creatures are becoming endangered. I'm sure people could find something to eat that's not threatened with extinction.
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Post by whodoesntlovesnails on Jan 16, 2008 23:58:52 GMT
i am also a veggie and i just think it is wrong to eat an animal. if we eat a cow, then we might as well be eating ourselves. meat is meat, it doesnt matter if it is a snail or pig. when ur eating bacon, think that u are eating a little piggy that was running around being happy until...CHOP.
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Post by brgwnth on Jan 17, 2008 21:05:26 GMT
at least the food i eat is humanely killed. i dont think that being boiled alive is humane so i don't eat lobster or anything that goes in a pot.
ESPECIALLY SNAILS!!!!!!
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Post by whodoesntlovesnails on Feb 11, 2008 17:44:09 GMT
at least the food i eat is humanely killed. i don't think that being boiled alive is humane so i don't eat lobster or anything that goes in a pot. ESPECIALLY SNAILS!!!!!! i agree, i was recently at the store "Olivers" and i was in the back next to the sea food section, and in a tank, there was a large crab stuffed in a tiny tank with a bunch of lobsters ready to be killed. i wanted to take them all home and let them back into the wild, and not on someones plate. how a person can cook anything alive is beyond me -miley
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Post by ffffrf on Feb 16, 2008 0:03:51 GMT
thats torturing snails
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Rachel
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Post by Rachel on Feb 16, 2008 10:17:47 GMT
i am also a veggie and i just think it is wrong to eat an animal. if we eat a cow, then we might as well be eating ourselves. meat is meat, it doesnt matter if it is a snail or pig. when ur eating bacon, think that u are eating a little piggy that was running around being happy until...CHOP. i agree, i recently went from veggie to vegan as its not just how they kill animals its the fact that they also pump dairy cows full of steroids, and they get swollen and infected udders, but no treatment, just forced to make more milk, its so cruel. I had the PETA go veggie pack and it made me feel sick, people just do not realise how badly animals are treated, even so called free range is not really. its awful, how would that person like to be "gently" boiled for ten minutes?
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Post by whodoesntlovesnails on Feb 22, 2008 1:54:30 GMT
i can not agree more. why should we treat animals any different than we treat ourselves. and you are absolutely right! how can u be "gently" boiled. what we do to animals is just as bad as wht happened with the nazies and the Holucost. people were put in gas chambers, and lobsters are put in excrushyating hot water untill they die! what some people do to animals is absolutely horrific. and for people that go hunting for fun! i cant even speak about that!
-miley
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Post by brgwnth on Mar 19, 2008 20:26:25 GMT
it wouldnt be nearly as bad if they had died HUMANELY or NATURALLY first (P.S. The only reason that i eat meat isbecause i am not allowed to be aveggie cause all i would eat is bread and soup )
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Mar 19, 2008 21:55:42 GMT
There are so many other wonderful veggie things to eat besides bread and soup. Why limit yourself?
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Rachel
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Post by Rachel on Mar 20, 2008 9:16:36 GMT
mmm veggie burger (i is hungry)
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Post by fabrizio on Mar 20, 2008 19:45:48 GMT
I'm a vegetarian (not vegan although) too, since a lot of years, and found that quite disgusting, too.... I wouldn't blame someone just because a meat-eater, yet I believe that an "aesthetical", "naturalistic" or even simply "affective" way of relationing ourselves with snails (or other animals), as it's for all of the serious "pet-keepers", is a more "evolved" way of enjoying them, rather than simply "use" them as food, this latter being the more "primitive" of all the reasons for bearing any interest in other living beings.... Since when I was a child, I felt (and still feel) a sort of enchantment in staring at living sea mollusks spreading their soft yet tough bodies in the water, while "average" people could feel just a "gastronomic" interest toward them!! So I was spontaneously attracted from the colours and the beauty of any animal or plants, rather than from their "taste".... It's quite sad, to be unable to enjoy all that can be offered us by the living beauty of such creatures (that means, caring for them to keep to be alive and healthy), while being, instead of it, capable only to appreciate them once destoyed, killed and reduced to a shapeless, inert and gummy piece of "stuff" . As I liked to see living mollusks, at the same degree I felt and feel very "yucky", about the "cooked" ones . And I find quite unreasonable, that so many people around are eager to make criticizing about rearing animals, keeping aquariums or terrariums etc (unless they are unproperly managed, of course), while the very same people don't care a bit for the same or similar animals being slaughtered, just for their ephemeral "culinary" fancy.... I see even on the TV (at least here in Italy), in some "naturalistic" tv programs, they blame aquariums and similar, while in the "cooking section" of the very same program, they show you killed brasses or other beautiful fishes, ready to be cooked, and they openly praise at such "feats"! If you keep some small lobsters at 20C° and with the utmost care and love, this is a fact to blame for them; while placing the same poor lobsters in a 100C° boiling pot, is intended as a "yummy" act!! fabrizio
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Post by whodoesntlovesnails on Mar 21, 2008 0:21:11 GMT
i have kept a baby cray fish before, i was at a collage here in california, and they have a huge pond FULL of crayfish. and as most people know, crayfish always fight each other, and i would always see legs and tails that had been ripped off in a fight. anyway, i was walking around and i saw a baby (about 2inches long) and he was in really bad shape, he was all cut up, missing one of the large claws, and only had 3 of his 6 feet. i took him home, bought a clear storage bin, and made him the CUTEST home i have ever made. and because i didnt want him to not be able to be released back into the wild, i bought him live fish (that i bought at the fishing store that sold fish for bait, i thought it was sad to sacrifice them, but...) he had to "hunt" for his fish, even though i made them easy to catch. he got bigger and bigger, and he molted several times. he moved up a size in the storage bin, and he was finally full grown, had all of his legs back, and a nice tough shell. because i loved hims o much, i didnt stick him back in a pond, but gave him to a friend's dad who had a HUGE tank with fish (the fish were coy fish, too big for him to eat) and i still see him today. he is doing great, and he was renamed King. just though i should share that will you guys.
-miley
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Post by Rachel on Mar 21, 2008 10:28:44 GMT
thats sweet. i looked after a crab for 4 years after a seagull dropped it in my garden, i still have no idea where the little guy came from, we are nowhere near the sea. i have also looked after winkles before, its fascinating to watch them
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