You might not look at this and think, "I should eat that". But in France, people eat about 700 million snails a year. Snail farming even has its own term, heliciculture. While many different cultures ...

Heliciculture, commonly known as snail farming, is the process of cultivation of edible snails. The meat and snail eggs can be consumed as escargot (as menu on the table) and as a delicacy.

Though escargots, a classic French dish, are land-dwelling snails and harvested from the ground, they are technically ...