Avril Bourquin wrote:

>
> I would like to do a taped phone interview with you regarding a segment I'm
> working on called "Making a Snail Farm".

* maybe such a segment should be titled: "How to introduce invasive
alien snails to your region, where they will have goodness-only-knows
what unanticipated ecological effects."

I would suggest to them that because of the danger (=certainty) of
escape from a "snail farm" that no one be encouraged to undertake it --
if they need the encouragement they don't know enough about snails to
know which alien species aren't already introduced in their area.

imho,

fred.
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