Posted on 09/20/2009 5:15:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Presumably following the maxim of "waste not, want not", utilising roadkill has become a trend. In the UK, top forager Fergus Drennan (www.wildmanwildfood.com) has taken to holding roadkill suppers.
In Australia one Les Hall published a handy guidebook to spotting deceased species on the road.
And in Canada designer Amy Nugent has taken things a step further, "harvesting" highway hits from bears and moose (what you might call megafauna) through to porcupines to fashion a celebrated jewellery range (www.roadquill.ca) that includes bracelets and tie slides.
I'm not completely blind to the ethical reasoning here.
The first rule of sustainability is that humanity should use abundance, and there is sadly an abundance of roadkill; at one famed US junction (Highway 27 at Lake Jackson near Tallahassee, Florida), a turtle has a 98.86% chance of being squished, while on our roads the People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) estimates that 1-2% of the national population of hedgehogs, around 15,000, is killed on roads each year.
Secondly, carrion appeals to those who hate waste and, as one prolific UK roadkill consumer puts it, out of 40 carcasses found here, 20 will be edible, which may seem like good odds for something that's free. Finally and sensationally, animal rights campaigners tend to give roadkill the green light, including Peta, which deems roadkill meat acceptable fodder, as it's meat that hasn't come courtesy of the "barbaric" meat industry.
But it's hardly a natural end. The sustainability argument is undermined by the fact that roadkill is interlinked with the automobile and road-building sectors (both known for their thumping environmental and carbon footprints). After all, cyclists don't take out much native wildlife.
According to a study by Royal Holloway and Bedford university, hedgehogs have the poorest road skills.
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Not new, the cops in Glendale, CA back in the 50s even, used to call a friend of mine anytime a deer got hit to come out and get it.
He’d would dress it out on the spot and take it to a “friendly butcher” that would make it into sausage and he would split it with the cops.
You guys are talkin about eatin perch on a road kill thread, did you take driving lessons from Ted Kennedy?
Roadkill? Eat roadkill?
Okay.
Carrion.
it is against the law to take the meat from an animal that you find or that you hit....silly because once a great big moose was hit and this young guy wanted the meat so bad and he had to wait so long for the authority that it spoiled...
the "roadkill" group gives all the meat they harvest to the local mission....they can't keep anything not even the hide...
and btw, its a work of good will.....these guys do it voluntarily....
is that a real picture?.....wow.....I’ve only seen a live badger once in my lifetime outside of a zoo.....
If it is on the verge of spoiling, then you better be prepared to cook it on the spot. Saves on the ptomaine poisoning, etc.
I always carry a roll of heavy duty foil and a package of ........
Like my new carpet?
The competition out here is fierce.....
Pigs eat roadkill on the A27 motorway, in Sussex, after escaping from their pen
EWWWWWWW!
I showed my teen sons this pic and they started singing the badger, badger, badger song. Have you heard it?
Remeber the song, “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road”?
Crossin’ the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn’t see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin’ to high Heaven!
Take a whiff on me, that ain’t no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don’t have to look and you don’t have to see
‘Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin’ to high Heaven!
Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they’re gonna make you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin’ to high Heaven!
C’mon stink!
You got it!
It’s dead, it’s in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin’ to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It’s dead, it’s in the middle
And it’s stinkin’ to high, high Heaven
Dismember ... remember, whatever.
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