'Would you eat roadkill?' poll results/discussion

Mozette

bumpoowee wrote: »

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?

So long as it was washed first.

dmeagor

If an animal is suffering then a vet may be called to put the animal down so your free meal may be the last thing you or your dog ever eat!

Horasio

Our cat killed a squirrel and bought it to our door.

We didn't eat it as it didn't look to have a lot of meat on it.

Welshwoofs

A for me. It was a regular thing during my childhood for my Mother to pick up a freshly dead pheasant or rabbit from the road and I guess that habit has stuck with me. Obviously it has to be fresh and not splattered.

We're way too squeamish these days about the origins of meat. I was born in the late 60s and experienced such things as Granny keeping rabbits for the pot in the garden and simply go ring the neck of the next bunny in line for cooking. We also hunted more in those days I think, things like wood pigeon used to be common on the table.

Same goes for foraging. We foraged for mushrooms, picked sloes, hips, wild damsons etc in the season. What I find sad is that I live near the most fantastic samphire beds and when I gather during the summer I regularly get people walking past asking what I'm doing and then crumpling their noses up when I tell them....whilst at the same time restaurants charge top whack for dishes with wild samphire in.

Now's the season for sweet chestnuts!

ben500

dmeagor wrote: »

If an animal is suffering then a vet may be called to put the animal down so your free meal may be the last thing you or your dog ever eat!

Any vet administering euthanasia to a wild animal is required to remove and dispose of the carcase and is reimbursed for the cost of doing so by the RSPCA.

bap98189

wildthing01 wrote: »

it's plainly disgusting!!! you have no idea how long it's been there, what diseases it may have had before it was squished and what might have been having a nibble on it since........

That is just not true. You can tell very easily roughly how long it has been there. Body temperature is the first clue. If it's still warm, it hasn't been there long. The condition of the carcass is another good clue. With roadkill, if the carcass is intact, the chances are it hasn't been there long anyway because dead meat tends to either get run over by more cars or attracts crows and other carrion eaters.

jackieb

I hit a pheasant yesterday while going at 60mph (was horrible ). I didn't stop to pick it up though cos i'm not a pheasant plucker.

megsykins

Anyone who visited Darwin has probably heard of this stall at the wonderful Mindil Beach Market http://www.roadkillcafe.com.au/public/index.php We had kangaroo, crocodile, emu and camel kebab skewers. Yum!

Also at this place on the NZ South Island West Coast http://www.pukekura.co.nz/bushmans_centre/index.htm we had possum pate and some very cheap wild vension - deer are classed as pests in some areas of NZ as they're not native and cause havoc.

mattytun

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww YUK..............you would have to be a real DESPO to eat road kill ..........

sarahemmm

When I was a child, my father quite often would see a rabbit, hare or pheasant hit by a car ahead of him. He would stop, and if it wasn't squashed, bring it home. So we had jugged hare or roast pheasant for Sunday lunch. Mind you, my mother refused to deal with another pheasant, as you have to hang them until they turn greenish!