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Roadkill can be harvested for food under new Oregon law
AP ^ | June 22, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 06/22/2017 10:27:41 AM PDT by C19fan

Some folks in Oregon might not want to ask, when served an elk burger or a venison steak, where the meat came from. Under a roadkill bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature and signed by the governor, motorists who crash into the animals can now harvest the meat to eat.

And it's not as unusual as people might think. About 20 other states also allow people to take meat from animals killed by vehicles. Aficionados say roadkill can be high-quality, grass-fed grub.

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TOPICS: Food; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: roadkill
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To: entropy12
There is no better meat than prime rib from a freshly killed deer or elk.

No aging?

21 posted on 06/22/2017 10:53:35 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: C19fan

In some jurisdictions you can put your name on the roadkill rotation list. When law enforcement officers come upon fresh roadkill you get a call for pickup.


22 posted on 06/22/2017 10:53:36 AM PDT by posterchild (Treade a worme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne.)
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To: Jolla

‘Cept for the pesky bullet hole and the fact you usually have to report game animals.


23 posted on 06/22/2017 10:56:19 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: C19fan

Legal here in PA. I think we have the most auto/deer collisions. Just totaled my Honda 3 weeks ago.


24 posted on 06/22/2017 10:59:39 AM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: JimRed

Two Northern grouse flew into my windshield one early evening in October. It was a glancing blow that killed them but just broke a few bones. Great meal that night.


25 posted on 06/22/2017 11:09:25 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: C19fan

If you are efficient, you can have a roadkill’s worth of roasts in the freezer in less than an hour.


26 posted on 06/22/2017 11:10:26 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

I was told long ago, not to eat the meat where the body was hit.


27 posted on 06/22/2017 11:21:44 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: C19fan

I had no idea that picking up road kill would be illegal.


28 posted on 06/22/2017 11:35:55 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: C19fan

Decades ago the sheiff’s office where I worked served roadkill to prisoners. Saved taxpayers $$ to feed the lawless.


29 posted on 06/22/2017 12:08:02 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Red Badger

I have a friend that works in a tunnel in a major thoroughfare in a National Park and they have deer road kills all the time and people will beg them to take the critter. No can do, the National Park refuses to allow this and they have to take the animal to a designated area and throw it out in the park where nature takes it’s course. What a waste...


30 posted on 06/22/2017 12:24:58 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: C19fan

I don’t see the problem. Lots of variety, and best of all, it comes pre-grilled!


31 posted on 06/22/2017 12:25:09 PM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: sarge83

Nature never wastes any thing.....................


32 posted on 06/22/2017 12:27:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“I was told long ago, not to eat the meat where the body was hit.”

The most dangerous thing in the market is the produce. It’s really hard to hurt yourself with meat. I’m more concerned about the aesthetic sensitivities of my guests than I am about an otherwise healthy dead animal being safe to eat.

Don’t eat sick animals. There’s a story about country folk for whom squirrel brains were a delicacy. The whole family would bring their squirrel brains to the family dinner to give to the patriarch. Turns out that many of those squirrels were road kill, and they were road kill because they had a brain disease like Mad Cow that made the squirrels run in circles on the road until they got hit. Not a good outcome for the patriarch.


33 posted on 06/22/2017 2:45:25 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: C19fan
once upon a time game cops here used to to be called to deer strikes along with the sheriff, they would then take it to poor families

now it's not "Inspected" so they can't do it anymore

34 posted on 06/22/2017 3:19:52 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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Roadkill can be harvested for food under new Oregon law ...

but ya better not pump yer own gas to get thar, you hearin' me?!

35 posted on 06/22/2017 3:23:07 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: C19fan
Just Oregon?


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36 posted on 06/22/2017 6:43:52 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: C19fan

Just don’t ask Granny for her recipe.


37 posted on 06/22/2017 6:55:12 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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