'Would you eat roadkill?' poll results/discussion

SailorSam

zygurat789 wrote: »

I found a sack of sprouts on a road, they were good and lasted for weeks.

I think i'd rather eat the sack than the sprouts. YUK.

zygurat789

SailorSam wrote: »

I think i'd rather eat the sack than the sprouts. YUK.

sprouts are good for scurvy Sam

SailorSam

If i'm made to, i'll eat one at Christmas and try and hide it inside a potato
Then with one gulp before i can taste it, swallow.

bumpoowee

How would you feel if your pet dog/cat ran out into the road and got hit by a car, and then the driver got out a knife and fork and a bottle of ketchup and got stuck in?

ThinkingOfLinking

C. I have eaten roadkill before but would only eat animals that I already eat and also would only take ones which weren't totally smashed up/had been there for days/looked like they'd been ill too. And considering the price of venison, I'd stock my freezer if I found a deer.

_Layla_

I just couldn't eat it... ewwww!
I don't know if you realise, but REAL meat comes in neat packaging lol

ThinkingOfLinking

People need to face up to where meat comes from.

LittleMissAspie

No cos I'm a vegetarian anyway.

I don't understand why a meat eater would eat a rabbit that was clubbed over the head (abbatoir) but not one that got hit by a car (roadkill). Both are dead rabbits. If you eat one then I don't see the problem in eating the other.

vitamin_joe

hi LMA- I'm a veggie aspie too.

I guess in theory I'd have less problem eating roadkill than some factory-farmed animal. It'd have to be a matter of life-or-death though, which I can't see happening anytime in the near future.

I once came across a couple of roadkill badger cubs. The last thing on my mind was frying them up with some chips and beans. I just felt sad that these beautiful creatures got killed by cars.

"Neither the Department for Transport, the Highways Agency nor English Nature keeps statistics, but the conservative estimate is that at least 10 million birds and mammals are killed on our roads each year." URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/roadkill-one-from-the-road-414972.html"]source[/URL

A technical point- I'm not certain, but I think that picking up pheasant roadkill is classed as poaching, and is illegal.

bumpoowee

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

No cos I'm a vegetarian anyway.

I don't understand why a meat eater would eat a rabbit that was clubbed over the head (abbatoir) but not one that got hit by a car (roadkill). Both are dead rabbits. If you eat one then I don't see the problem in eating the other.

What if your salad had been grown in somebodys dirty toilet using human fertiliser rather than in a field using traditional fertiliser? Would you have no problem either way?