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Crop-chomping snails seized at Dulles
WTOP.com ^ | 9/9/10 | Staff

Posted on 09/11/2010 7:24:13 AM PDT by ExGeeEye

...A traveler from Ghana tried to bring 14 Giant African Land Snails into the US...one of the worst invasive species...could have been devastating to crops.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtopnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africansnails; agribusiness; agriculture; economicwarfare; ecoterrorism; ghana; goodeating; invasivespecies; pettrade; salttheearth; snails
Unless these are good eating ("I'll have the escargot...and super-size 'em"), I can't think of a reason to do this other than economic warfare (crop destruction). Somebody please tell me I'm wrong.

Thank you.

1 posted on 09/11/2010 7:24:15 AM PDT by ExGeeEye
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To: ExGeeEye
The traveler declared the snails, but they had to be destroyed because they are illegal in the U.S.

Our melting pot is becoming a sewer.

2 posted on 09/11/2010 7:27:06 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: ExGeeEye
Unless these are good eating ("I'll have the escargot...and super-size 'em"), I can't think of a reason to do this

They are good eating - they're a West African delicacy - and some people also fancy them as pets, but if they ever got into the wild they'd be incredibly destructive.

3 posted on 09/11/2010 7:28:28 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

Amen to that. The garden snails that plague us here are quite literally descendants of escaped escargot snails that a homesick frenchman brought over in the 1850s to raise and eat.


4 posted on 09/11/2010 7:36:28 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 595 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: ExGeeEye

I worked a tech gig with APHIS, the part of the Department of Agriculture that handles these checks. Often people bring in plants and animals because it reminds them of home. I think the snails were for eating. Other stuff gets in inadvertently through freight shipments. There’s a system to check what’s coming into the country and pick out the suspicious stuff, but it’s aimed at freight, the biggest bulk of imports.


5 posted on 09/11/2010 7:39:48 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: ExGeeEye
I wish I would have saved it, but 9 years ago (right after the 9/11 attacks), there was a giant thread on FR with a BUNCH of pics of arab "art".

They depicted our land and population being devastated by bugs and pestilance (West Nile virus anyone?) In all of them, there was always a horse running through the background, that was supposed to represent the arab.

Anyone else remember seeing what I'm talking about?

We are at war with these backward pukes for our very survival, and now we have democRATs kissing their ass.

We have to eliminate our enemies in a BIG way - Where's that button? I'll push it!

6 posted on 09/11/2010 7:43:39 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: ExGeeEye

I just gotta ask: Was the traveler a Muslim?


7 posted on 09/11/2010 7:51:40 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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IF so, the MSM sure as H won’t tell us!


8 posted on 09/11/2010 7:59:04 AM PDT by a real Sheila (NEVER FORGET 9-11! NEVER FORGET!)
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I just gotta ask: Was the traveler a Muslim?

Population is 45% muslim. So it's possible.

9 posted on 09/11/2010 8:05:51 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: ExGeeEye

People that smuggle these invasive species need to spend a long term in the pen for putting our country at risk.


10 posted on 09/11/2010 8:07:04 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: ExGeeEye

Aw, give ‘em their little pets. After you’ve boiled them, of course.


11 posted on 09/11/2010 8:24:57 AM PDT by kimmie7 (THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
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After you’ve boiled them, of course.

The pets or the smugglers?

12 posted on 09/11/2010 8:27:42 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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heh, the pets, of course.


13 posted on 09/11/2010 8:43:41 AM PDT by kimmie7 (THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
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To: ExGeeEye
if I were paranoid, I would ask if the man for Ghana was a Muslim. However, I won't ask the question.
14 posted on 09/11/2010 9:05:11 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: ExGeeEye

From a few months ago :

Shipment of 67 live giant African snails intercepted at Los Angeles International Airport
Fox News ^ | 7/15/14 | AP/Fox

...U.S. Customs and Border protection inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized 67 live giant African snails meant for human consumption....

The prohibited snails arrived from Nigeria and were being sent to a person in San Dimas, said Lee Harty, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


15 posted on 01/22/2015 3:32:48 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ExGeeEye

There’s an African religion called IfaOrisha that involves ingestion of snail ooze, etc


16 posted on 01/22/2015 3:51:12 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Yay, I have a zombie thread (happy dance)!!

But seriously, thanks for the update :)


17 posted on 01/22/2015 10:39:50 AM PST by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down....and to the left.)
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