Save the snails!

Or at least save some for me.

Expensive restaurants are now so popular that they are driving certain animals and fish to the verge of extinction, according to one of the world's leading chefs.

Pierre Gagnaire, whose Michelin three-star restaurant in Paris regularly wins plaudits as one of the world's best, said that there were now too many restaurants like his own, ploughing their way through large quantities of certain raw materials considered as delicacies.

It's all China's fault, says Gagnaire. Not Bubba's. He eats cheeseburgers.

Link: Rare delicacies 'eaten to extinction' |Earth News | Earth | Telegraph