Heliciculture, or snail farming is the process of farming or raising land snails specifically for human consumption.
Perhaps the best known and most often cultivated land snail species in the Western world is Helix pomatia, the Roman snail, Burgundy snail or apple snail and Helix aspersa. Both of these land snails are European in their native range and are protected in the wild almost everywhere (at least, the Roman Snail must not be collected any more).
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