| We have two conversations going here.
We are actually talking Pinctadas as having the gourmet adductor muscles and liviing in saltwater where the water is rich in ocean nutrients, not in porcine waste products.
Now I am old and my brain gets feeble, but I am sure I did hear that at least some farmed pearl mussels are fed pig manure. Isn't that why the stench on so many farms? Maybe it is only the farmed pearl mussels. Maybe the dehydrated mussels have another food source.
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Caitlin  potamilus purpuratus American Pearl Mussel Where can I get a pearl from this mussel? |