Comments on: Would you eat slugs?

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:55:02 +0000

Thanks for the tips EcoGrrl!

By: EcoGrrl

EcoGrrl — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:32:56 +0000

A couple ideas for the slug issue:
1) Slugs love beer - every spring when the rains come, I put shallow cups of beer around the items they seem to love to dine on. They are attracted to the smell of the yeast and climb up, in, and drown. It's the only time I buy bud light, haha.
2) Chickens & ducks love 'em - my neighbors who all have gardens just let their birds roam and they get a healthy diet of insects and slugs and such - a nice 'circle of life' way of attacking the issue.

Escargot=snails=slugs w/o shells. Tasted like a portabello mushroom when I tried escargot years ago, but I was also on my third or fourth cocktail, haha.

Groovy blog, btw :)

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:49:23 +0000

I think you raise a really valid point there and if we are going to switch to eating insects we should think hard about which type of insects we eat, where they have come from, if eating them is sustainable, as well as if they are safe to eat, just as we would with any other food.

I guess my wider thought is why eat farmed food, when there is an abundant source of local wild food available? Especially those creatures considered to be pests, which are often killed in great numbers anyway using pesticides e.g. ants, slugs and other wild insects and creatures. There may be a good reason why not e.g. safety or sustainability concerns, but if we started eating creatures that are safe and sustainable especially from our gardens, it could have a whole load of knock on beneficial effects. Less use of pesticides, greater promotion of natural habitats and less need for waste as you can gather what you need from your garden each day or during the summer months...

By: Small Footprints

Small Footprints — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:22:08 +0000

Ahhhh noooo … I don't think I could eat slugs. Although … I used to eat snails (before turning vegetarian) … can slugs be that much different? Well, I'm not going to try it out. 🙂 One serious concern, though, knowing what voracious appetites humans have … I wonder what would happen to beneficial insects, and consequently plant foods, if insects became an accepted food source. In our typical over-indulgent ways, I'm afraid we might destroy all the hard working insects that keep our plants healthy and producing. Just a thought.