I’m a snail farmer. My goal is to become one of the biggest snail farmers in Africa. I’m starting small, but I want to raise millions of them—herds of snails, hordes of snails, swarms of snails.

According to Robert Nordseick, mollusk expert and writer of Mollusks.at, the French eat 40,000 tons of snails per year, most of which are "Cornu aspersum" snails. Throughout the world, however, many ...