How To Eat Roadkill

Chelsea Green:

How broke would you have to get to eat roadkill?

Don't freak out. This isn't a sensationalist necrophilic bizarre fetishized kind of thing. It's legit. Actually, depending on several factors, it can be perfectly safe (and entirely affordable) to eat meat that has been left by the side of a highway or county road.

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Comments

[NL207]

Eating Roadkill? This used to be a bad joke on the Newhart Show.

[BannedNBoston]

In New Hampster the fish and game set a fake deer.
This drunk guy shot at it (out of season)
he did 3 months.
3 years later he fell for same trick in a different county!!


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[leduck]

shouldn't this post be from a red state
ultra conservative site?

[little old lady]

I'd suggest checking your state regulations BEFORE picking up roadkill. If you do it AFTER, you might not like the results

[Aabby]

not kosher. Literally.

[MHainds]

I've eaten roadkill dozens of times, although in almost every case, it was an animal that I accidentally hit with a car or truck. Among the animals I've eaten that were killed with a car: doves, quail, pheasant, deer, rabbit, and squirrel.
The quality of the meat varies from impact to impact!
A smashed critter with no intact bones, can’t be salvaged.
If it's the appropriate hunting season just pick it up, take it home and clean it.
If it's out of season, the appropriate St. Game and Fish Dept will generally write a permit allowing its utilization, at least that was my experience in Missouri.
Back when I was a trapper, I used to save the hides from winter road-killed furbearersl, even though I didn't eat the meat because I was unsure as to how long it had been there.
With big animals like deer, generally the trauma is on just one side of the carcass, and often, that meat must be discarded, while unbroken- lightly bruised quarters and loins are just fine.

[lillibelle]

Wow! That was a most unusual tutorial. It is also one awfully long list of animals you've smooshed and devoured. How did you manage to run over a dove (& more than once!)? Did you scrape enough squirrel meal off the road (& was it paved?) to satisfy your hunger? Do you dine alone or bring the roadkill home to your family? Are there many Jere.miah.John .sons like you left in Missouri?

[MHainds]

I pay very close attention while I am driving. Most people hit small animals all the time without knowing it. I just notice when it happens.
Some roadkill can't be prevented, because they come at you too fast.
Others, like turtles and snakes, I stop to help across the road on a regular basis, at least once a week. That I know of, I've only run over one snake, and I have never run over a turtle. But I've saved dozens from less careless drivers.
Call me weird because I eat some of the mammals and birds I hit. But I save as much of the herpetofauna as I can.

[JScott]

Well scavenger animals and birds will head for the carcass and start to devour it. If they are smart they move it first so they don't become same.

[MHainds]

They aren't that smart. That's how and why I got the window in my truck busted by a buzzard that I didn't even see until it came out of the grass and smashed into my passenger window.

[BannedNBoston]

Roadkill deer = delicacy
Road kill moose even tastier.

[truenortherner]

Yes, Moose is best.
And since they are totally oblivious to their impending death, soooo tender.

[cucumber]

meat eaters tend to like their meat t.ortured on factory farms before death, so this won't wash.

[Aabby]

so much anger. Thanks for loving the animals but -- Some of us like our meat free range, antibiotic free and grass fed. Cruelty free. Also, some of us need it to be slaughtered kosher/halal manner where there are specific rules for blood drainage etc. and the animal is treated with dignity and respect.

[cucumber]

so much incorrect info. Read up and watch videos on kosher. It's not humane. Nor is taking the life of an animal who wants to live as much as you do. Nor is treating another living being like a commodity because you like the taste.

[gbrooks]

I'd eat roadkill before I'd eat bugs or wash my face with bird $hit.

[gavottes]

It pleases me to know you have formed clear ideas on such things.
Surprises me, I must admit..
I guess I need to do something thinking so I can make a claim like yours.

[gbrooks]

Wha?

[AbsurdHero]

It was on Huffpost recently. Check the archives.

[AbsurdHero]

Don't.

[Podaleiros]

Stop. Right. There.