Will exterminating the African giant snail go to jail? The excellent food of Africans, why no one on the mainland dares to eat it?
It is an African delicacy with an annual sales volume of more than 1,500 kilograms, which is used as a military camp by the US barracks, but it has become a flooded invasive alien species on the mainland.
In August 2021, a PhD student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University was reported for killing three snails with salt and arrested by the police, and may even be sentenced to three years in prison.
And this kind of snail, the so-called African giant snail, it is an invasive alien species on the mainland, it is said to be accidentally brought back by an overseas Chinese, mainly distributed in the mainland Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Hainan Yunnan and other coastal areas.
This guy is hermaphroditic, up to 20 centimeters long, has at least 200 eggs per laying, and its vitality is extremely tenacious. African snails come with 25,000 teeth, which allows it to eat everything, if there is really nothing to eat, they can also survive by eating soil, is a very harmful animal, Miami government in order to fight this snail, will spend millions of dollars a year, but unfortunately have not achieved much results.
So the question is, why can this African giant snail flood the continent? Could it be that mainland foodies are not strong?
As a delicacy for Africans, African giant snails are flooded in China, why does no one dare to eat them on the mainland?
In Ghana, Africa, this large snail is a local delicacy, it is not only rich in protein, but also has a lot of meat, and is eaten by Africans every year more than 1,500 kilograms.
However, although it can be eaten, it is not "delicious", the African giant snail has a large number of bacteria and viruses in its body, especially the very scary Canton strongyloides, this virus will invade your brain after you are infected, causing meningitis or blindness, and death.
In addition, the places where African giant snails crawl, and even their excrement, may also contain this virus, as long as you come into contact with it, it is easy to be infected.
In 1985, Zhong Qiugui, chairman of the famous Jinlan soy sauce enterprise, ate African giant snails raw in the villa, resulting in a family of five infected with Guangzhou strongyloides, and eventually all died.
In 1999, a family infected with the virus and meningitis after eating vegetables crawled by African giant snails, so the African giant snail is definitely a very scary species.
As long as people touch it, there is a high probability of being infected by the virus in its body, if you see this creature on the street, please be sure to stay away from it.
Of course, not only the African giant snail, but also the lethality of the Fushou snail is amazingly terrifying!
If you see this pink egg on the street, be sure to root it all out, because it's scary!
It is the famous Fushou snail, which was introduced to the mainland in 1981, because of its large size and delicious meat, so in the 80s of the last century, it soon became the new favorite of foodies, and major agricultural owners also began to breed about it.
But there is no pie in the world, and soon people found that this kind of Fushou snail reproduces too fast, can produce 320,000 eggs a year, and can eat anything with a great appetite, many crops have been destroyed by the Fushou snail, basically as long as a snail appears, this place will be immediately occupied by the Fushou snail.
But this is not the deadliest thing, in 2006 Beijing Fushou snail incident broke out, 82 diners after eating uncooked Fushou snail, brain infection with Guangzhou strongyloides, meningitis, facial paralysis, and severe brain pain and other diseases, and finally the restaurant compensated 20 million yuan to do the matter, since then Fushou snail is no longer used for sale, people dare not eat this kind of snail.
Of course, there will still be some unscrupulous merchants to fish in troubled waters, so we must distinguish the difference between good snails and ordinary field snails, first of all, Fushou snails are much larger than field snails, more than double it, secondly, Fushou snails are 3-5 snail layers, and field snails are 6-7 layers, everyone remember it, but don't eat Fushou snails by mistake.