'Would you eat roadkill?' poll results/discussion

Gordon_the_Moron

Personally no I wouldn't eat it because I'm a vegetarian, that said I would rather eat roadkill than a chicken from a battery cage, in case anyone is wondering I would rather eat any wild animal than supermarket farmed meat. If I had to eat meat to survive (i.e. it contained some nutrient essential to human survival unavailable from other sources) I would look for roadkill and if I couldn't find it I would shoot wild animals and prepare them myself (whatever I came to first, grouse, wood pigeon, squirrel as long at it wasn't an endangered species, someone's pet or a human then anything would be fair game)

My ex was a meat eater and all but one of my family who I live with are, I have no problem cooking/handling meat for them, so I would be happy to gut and cook some roadkill for someone else to try, unlike the others on here who have said they would eat it if someone else prepared it for them. If that bothers you then you shouldn't !!!!!!! eat it.

The comments about as long as it wasn't squished or hadn't been there too long are just ridiculous, obviously it needs to be in an edible state, thats like saying I would eat the mushrooms in my fridge, as long as they are not covered in mould.... HELLO!!! DUH!!!!
If you are going to eat something it needs to be fit for human consumption, surely to god that much is obvious.

creased-leach

We live in a small village, and we're surrounded by pheasant "growing" areas. We put up with shotgun pellets dropping into the garden frequently in shooting season- and quite often get the birds taking refuge in our garden.

Three or four days ago, OH was handed a roadkill pheasant by a neighbour, it seems intact and was still warm at the time. I was up for giving it a go- but we forgot it was hanging in the shed until this came up...

Radsteral

i would feel sorry for the rabbit, but its an offer i cant refuse
its free
its organic
its environment friendly
it tastes 10 times better than any meat on sale

eveweave

We saw a pheasant killed on the road so turned around to collect it. Hung it for a few days, then plucked, drawn and cooked it made a great starter for 4.:j

Lotus-eater

Gordon_the_Moron wrote: »

The comments about as long as it wasn't squished or hadn't been there too long are just ridiculous, obviously it needs to be in an edible state, thats like saying I would eat the mushrooms in my fridge, as long as they are not covered in mould.... HELLO!!! DUH!!!!
If you are going to eat something it needs to be fit for human consumption, surely to god that much is obvious.

It's not ridiculous at all, "an edible state" is definitely a different thing for many people.
"Fit for human consumption" is again a different thing for many people.

A rabbit hit by a vehicle is automatically "unfit" by most people's reckoning.
Being fit to eat, by my reckoning, at least for a roadkill, it needs to be at least, mostly complete and not too squashed. But mushrooms in my fridge, I can eat till they go mouldy.

If WW3 were to happen, I would look at anything and everything. But it hasn't.

luvvlyjubbly

Yes if someone else picked it up and prepared it

rag31

I'm amazed that people are finding so much edible roadkill. I live in the country and see an average of about 10-15 roadkills a week and I think in the last 2 years I have seen a handful that are not completely splatted all over the road or in an utter state.

I haven't examined them but I can't imagine that all non-splatted are edible either.....

I'm veggie so wouldn't touch roadkill, and squeamish too!

Becky

Gordon_the_Moron

Most people on this thread are not answering the question asked, just answering what there answer would be if the question was "would you eat roadkill?" the question is "Assuming someone had safely made it for you - would you eat roadkill?"

So you KNOW it is safe, not diseased or squashed or in some way unfit to eat, you haven't had to prepare it yourself but you know it is roadkill, would you be willing to eat it or not?

My answer is no, I'm a veggie and plan on staying that way, however if I needed to eat meat to survive I would much rather eat a pheasant pie made with a pheasant I'd picked up from the side of the road (and gutted and prepared myself, I'm not in the slightest squeamish, though I wouldn't know where to start when it came to actually doing the job, I'm sure someone could teach me) than eat a Tesco Value chicken reared in a battery cage.

Gordon_the_Moron

If you are happy to eat chicken or lamb or beef what is wrong with pheasant, grouse, deer, rabbit etc etc (I did try rabbit once before I was veggie, for anyone who does eat meat I'd recommend it over chicken any day)

UnluckyT

If i was absolutly desperate id give it a go.

mind you their was a programme on bbc2 quite a while back called something wonderland that had an episode on a bloke who was well known for eating road kill and made for quite intreaging viewing you could say.