After this Southeast Asian delicacy invaded China, farmers stomp it to death on sight, and no one dares to eat it

Chinese people's love of food has truly reached an "outrageous" level. In China, the only food you can't think of is food that can't be made. Food is not only a need for people's taste buds, but also a bond through which people communicate their feelings. People pursue wild game with particular zeal, but not all wild game can be eaten, especially invasive wild species, which may hide unknown risks.

This is the apple snail. Most people don't know much about the apple snail, so here the editor will introduce today's protagonist, the "apple snail." In Southeast Asia, especially Cambodia, it is a delicacy that locals often roast and eat. It looks very much like a river snail, as if they were brothers, but it is much larger, eats everything, is as hard to kill as a cockroach, and reproduces quickly. Those pink "fish eggs" in the wild are the eggs of the apple snail. It has been listed by China as one of the invasive alien species.

After the apple snail was introduced to China in 1981, it began to spread on a large scale, and since it has almost no natural enemies, it became even more unrestrained. So it began its path of conquest. In rice fields, in small rivers, in ponds, its figure is everywhere!

The most hateful thing is that it treats all kinds of crop seedlings as its food, which caused great suffering for the farmer uncles, who began to pit their wits against the apple snail. At first the farmer uncles started using pesticides, but the apple snail was not afraid at all and still did harm. So the farmer uncles began looking for its natural enemies, but the apple snail's "reproductive capacity" is too strong, and it simply had little effect.

Thus the battle between people and snails began. The whole family, old and young, took action together, bending over in the fields to catch apple snails. Then they dumped them on the road and stomped them to death. But the speed of catching them was far lower than their speed of reproduction, and the battle between people and snails thus fell into a passive state.

Some people see that the apple snail looks like a river snail and say it can be eaten as a delicacy. With so many food lovers in China, they say it could surely be eaten to extinction. In fact, this is very dangerous. The apple snail is not as kind as the river snail. Its body hides a large number of parasites, and these parasites are extremely harmful to the human body. Basically no one dares to eat it.

In recent years, people all over the country have suffered various diseases from eating apple snails, so for the sake of your own health, never eat apple snails. In addition, when eating river snails outside, you must be careful, because some unscrupulous vendors pass off apple snails as river snails to make dirty money.

Below, the editor will tell everyone several ways to distinguish apple snails from river snails: First, look at the color: the apple snail's shell is yellow, while the river snail's is greenish-brown; second, look at the tail: the apple snail's tail is shorter, while the river snail's is longer; third, look at the shell opening: the apple snail's shell opening is flatter, while the river snail's shell opening is rounder. Now everyone can easily recognize the apple snail!

Finally, what do you friends think of the apple snail? You are welcome to leave a comment and share your thoughts!