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He says you can’t harvest much edible meat from roadkill. The trauma from most deadly collisions makes the meat go bad.

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.