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California is following more than twenty other states that have already made eating roadkill legal.
I have pick up a fair amount of road kill.
Some are useful some are not.
Loss is solely dependent on what part of the animal is hit.
The best ones are head hits.
Been eating road kill moose for decades - of course, this is Alaska....
Can you imagine how nasty the meet would be if the gut was busted? Eww!
Why was it ever illegal?
I mean, I wouldn’t do it, but if somebody out there wants to do it and does not fear getting ill as a result, why is it the state’s business to stop them?
“Yep, I was driving thru that corn field, and that deer jumped right out in front of me.”
How many chefs and other good cooks carry skinning/slicing knnives and bone saws in the back of their pickups/trunks to slice and dice any deer that they kill or saw getting killed?
Answer: A lot!
Apparently, the best pieces of deer meat, the back straps are often not harmed after becoming road kill, just tenderized.
Those who like the hearts and livers carry large zip lock baggies for these highway gifts.
Which does NOT include YOU, SUV driver with whose vehicle the deer collided!
"Need" will be determined by a Fish, Game and Wildlife bureaucrat.
If they start eating skunks in California, the Democrat Party will have a hard time finding candidates.
For those that are interested in the "why" of this... When certain bowels and organs are ruptured in an animal collision, there are fluids that leak into otherwise edible tissues (Is that a clean enough explanation)?
Any hunter who has had a misplaced shot understands the urgency and challenge that can follow a kill to get the animal properly field dressed quickly. It's always messy depending on varying degrees of skill. But field dressing a gut shot deer can make you wish you hadn't had breakfast.
Ain’t nothing. Down here in Alabama, the highway median in known as ‘the buffet line’.
Unless I knew is very fresh, I wouldn’t want to try any recipes....OTOH, meat is meat.
Can’t see making it illegal for private citizens to eat it if they want but wouldn’t want to dine anyplace that served it.
Fresh and tender, right off the fender.
A road kill armadillo placed upside down on the engine will cook in it’s own juices in about 150 miles
I’ve eaten a few deer that have been freshly hit by me or someone I know.
In Indiana, all you have to do is call the county Sheriff, they send out a Deputy to give you a certificate allowing you to transport and possess and it’s all yours to do as you wish.
There’s usually at least half of the meat that is usable, providing the innards aren’t busted.
When I worked in a remote area with animals jumping in front of me always ate that I hit if it was intact enough or didn’t make it back to the forrest. Mostly hares. Once it was a deer so I had to call a police for insurance reason and had to leave it in place. Another time it was a pig but it ran away.
That’s pretty disgusting but how would you stop people from doing this?
Best chili I’ve ever made was from an elk taken with a “87” GMC.
A sad day for the buzzards in CA.