Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

In defence of slugs

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par Christopher Terrell Nield, Principal Lecturer, Bioscience, Nottingham Trent University

Slugs. They eat your lettuces, chew your cabbages, defoliate your dahlias and assassinate your asters. Even the name “slug” is unpleasant. It comes from the Middle English “slugge”, from a Norwegian word for a heavy, slow-moving or sluggish person. Slugs clearly have an PR problem, so let’s try and put things right.

First, they have a wilder lifestyle that some people give them credit for. Most land-based…

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