Cucumber plants and slugs

I'm new to growing tomato's and cucumber's etc and hate killing anything - my Father has told me that you shouldn't eat cucumber's if the outer skin has been 'nibbled' by slugs or snails as they're then poisonous, is there any truth to this - silly question I know??? Any, is there any humane way of keeping the critters away other than copper tape - which has failed miserably! Any advice would be gratefully received - especially as I want to offload some cucumber's tomorrow is they are indeed edible...

Many thanks in anticipation...

 

Make them very very drunk a few feet away with a saucer. Even if they do die they die a better death than they deserve.
Also u can munch cucumbers it doesn't matter how pretty they are. Cut off ugly bits.

 

Hiya Trace and welcome to GC

Yep munch away no problem...I lost 3 Cucumber plants to slugs and snails

I tried all sorts to save the last 2 plants and resorted to making 'salt collars' for them...bit of a faff but at least the plants survived

 

Thank you all so much for the reassurance and am very very grateful, trust me :-) I'll deliver to recipients the recipients tomorrow as planned... I did try collecting the critters and lugging them round to the front garden as I'm sure it's more than 10m (a distance I'd picked up on this year) but the wee lovelies trundled back again - tried to convince my husband that they needed to go for a ride in the car as I don't drive but he was spookily not receptive to that idea... I have a walk in greenhouse which is ideal for them but not me :-( I love the idea of getting them drunk!!! I'm a veggie and just genuinely can't kill anything be it slug, snail or ever wasp (and I hate them) unlike my Father... Thank you all once again and thank you for making me so welcome, have a great weekend and keep smiling!!!

 

Little alcohol trap, and they kill themselves gorging.