The problem isn’t parasites so much as the pesticides they soak up. People die from those. I wouldn’t f%$k with it.
Pesticides kill some in east
Actually I’d say snails is a likely suspect.
You absolutely DO NOT eat snails in the wild. You raise them for the purpose. The thing has so much parasite in them, you’d die eating them. Also they tend to bioaccumulate stuff, meaning they could have acquired toxin from their environment.
There’s a reason why these things aren’t kosher.
It takes massive amount of organophosphate based pesticide to kill a person… you know ones that aren’t VX/Sarin.
I must have read you say this like three or four times in the last couple of months now. Be aware that you’re talking to a group of largely Western city dwellers who often prefer pizza, Popeyes chicken, and the less weird types of Asian food lol.
How many of us do you reckon that, upon seeing a random snail on the ground, think “ooh, that looks tasty!” and immediately take a bite? I suspect the number is close to zero.
For the one or two potential readers who might be into foraging for gastropods, maybe you can just assume they know what they’re doing. 
I don’t know, but I think some Taiwanese (or many??) do eat snails…
Also French people eat snails too.
Famously. Everyone already knows that (it’s something of a stereotype in the UK actually). 
Just saying your repeated warnings about this supposed hazard aren’t really necessary, IMO.
I have, on many occasions, sold wild snails (Lissachatina), to people here. I have probably a couple requests a week (because we are organic, no other reason). We have people a couple times a month to trap field rats as well. For food. The snail thing is not from the wild is due to taiwanese not working hard anymore and stricter sanitation standards. The Goin rate here right now is $15/Jin (600g) for African land snails. After a person goes out one night hunting, despite hem being everywhere, not happening. They are farmed, on large scale. Baiting also works. Fermented plants is the go 
Might fuck up the argument, sorry! It is true, however, those big ass African land snails are now nationwide and cause billions of dollars in lost economic gains simply because the farmers brought them here to raise for food. The short sighted clueless idiots. We even have different color morphs naturalizing here. Damn.
Marine snails are common wild food as well.
Every day several on my lawn get free airfare to the field across the street.
They can go hundreds of meters a day. (There are races in a few bored communities in Taiwan lol). So many gardeners say They don’t have them. Just plant lemon grass, basil, Marigold, whatever the Facebook post said would work. Nope. Crush them. Step is fast. Rock smash. Throw against a hard surface. Just do it fast. Don’t make me make a bleeding heart post for these invasive fucks to point out we shouldn’t be unusually cruel, even to these beings (like the gecko sticky traps) 
it’s a conflict of interest!
I think we can manage on our own. But thanks.
But they did…
It did occur to me that you might just be one of the few people here into eating snails (or selling them for consumption), but you also know what you’re doing and are presumably aware of the risks… so I suspect you don’t really need the repeated warnings either, especially from someone who knows less about the topic than you. 
Just don’t torture them 
As bad as they are here for our environment, it’s a man made problem. Man made solutions should be humane. Manage away . With vengeance, but also the tiniest little bit of empathy, at least in terms of pain. We kill them daily too. But fast.
I don’t eat that trash. But restaraunts serve it. Loads of the canned escargt are actually these species farmed 
Sometimes I am not sure which is more worrisome. The parasites or Metaldehyde
Great find man. I posted in another thread just earlier. Then your post came to the auto feed thing. Read yhe article. Jesus christ.
Went to talk to the wife, mentioned some people died in taitung. Guess why? Her answer was exactly this, agriculture ppison. Fuck me. This one hits a bit home as we also open our lands to people to hut snails on a regular basis. In Taitung and Pingtung. What’s worse is us and many others have been in talks with FDA and many local communities about his exact issue over the past 10ish years. To see this STILL happening is depressing as all fuck.
Even if wild snails are used as food, which is still common, the normal protocol is let them be fore a few days to a week specifically for pesticide reasons. Obvious hat isn’t a yreatcmehid, but it’s a well established loose rule. My guess is that people dieing, this shitty rule wasn’t even followed.
This type of lack Lustre basic diligence is why the consumer should be careful. Easy at the grocer hard at the restaraunt. When i see words like “wild vegetable”, I just ban the family from eating it. Even basic sp3cies identification here is pretty poor. At least in food standard practices. There are still peo9le being hospitalizedfrom Brumansia species poisoning because it looks like a “wild vegetable” leaf. Pretty wild way to go to an ER. Probably better than a dead liver or some other chemical poisoning from industrial death sprays applied o where we grow our food…or parasites. But shit.
We need to level up! FDA could really serve a better function is they stick with current factory strictness and move on to actual sourcing. That remains a massive issue, in terms o laws and regulation.
This story actually brings tears to my eyes. Right at home. And he exact point discussed to deal for so many years. Those poor people. Just a shit situation that was EASILY and KNOWINGLY preventable!
Also makay hospital is famously known as the best here, and also famously known to misdiagnose. Head to kaohsiung or hualien if not an emergency
Yes, best not eat them raw though even cooked the chemicals are still there.
Golden rule: “Let there be shit”
Also movement. For many days. That’s basic SOP. Sometimes these chemicals kill us over time, not just that night. Like cigarettes. We should be smarter.
Could be, but there is no actual evidence of pesticide contamination reported in that article.
Food poisoning could easily (and probably more likely) be bacterial.
Re starving the snails for a while before eating, I think this is so they empty their guts so you dont eat snail shit. IIRC The French simply feed them on wheat flour for a week. I guess they dont mind eating snail shit, but draw the line at eating green snail shit.
I dunno how likely this is to be effective against pesticides, some of which bioaccumulate and persist in the tissues, especially in fats.
The symptoms clearly point to an excitotoxin, and are very consistent with poisoning from organophosphate anticholinesterase agent (like many broad spectrum insecticides, and like military nerve agents). None of these symptoms are seen from any known food poisoning in the bacterial sense.
Glad that’s cleared up then.