The French are the world’s biggest snail-eaters, consuming about 25,000 tonnes a year—equivalent to 700 million individual snails. To meet demand, snails are mostly raised in farms. It is important to ...

In yet another high-profile French heist following the Louvre museum robbery, a snail farm was targeted, with thieves stealing an estimated Rs 93 lakh (90,000 euros) worth of fresh and frozen snails.

About 450kg of French snails worth €90,000 have been stolen from a farm in the Champagne region of France. Producer Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne said the fresh and frozen snails were taken from L’Escargot ...