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
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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No aging?
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.
‘Cept for the pesky bullet hole and the fact you usually have to report game animals.
Legal here in PA. I think we have the most auto/deer collisions. Just totaled my Honda 3 weeks ago.
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.
If you are efficient, you can have a roadkill’s worth of roasts in the freezer in less than an hour.
I was told long ago, not to eat the meat where the body was hit.
I had no idea that picking up road kill would be illegal.
Decades ago the sheiff’s office where I worked served roadkill to prisoners. Saved taxpayers $$ to feed the lawless.
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...
I don’t see the problem. Lots of variety, and best of all, it comes pre-grilled!
Nature never wastes any thing.....................
“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.
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
but ya better not pump yer own gas to get thar, you hearin' me?!
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Just don’t ask Granny for her recipe.
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