Farmers hope to get permission to import live garden snails to begin breeding the sexually remarkable hermaphrodites and sell them to restaurants
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Frankly, the process has been going at a snail’s pace.
In 2019 the Australian government began a risk analysis on bringing European molluscs into the country for breeding and, eventually, eating.
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