'Would you eat roadkill?' poll results/discussion

vitamin_joe

I saw that too. Quite an eccentric fellow. He'd written a book of recipes I believe. He also had a big freezer full of labelled bags, like 'badger august 2008', ''rabbit, september 2008', 'stoat october 2008'... eurgh!

By the way, if you eat a roadkill leopard, does it give you the runs?

I'll get me coat...

hvd201

jeanmd wrote: »

Hi v_j,

Just to clarify. It is illegal to pick up a pheasant that you have run over, but not for someone else to pick it up. i.e. If the car in front hits one you can stop and pick it up.
I think this is to stop people deliberately running them over..

It's true that it's illegal to take home the carcass of any roadkill you have personally hit, whereas other road users such as the car behind can. This is indeed to stop you intentionally hitting animals.

I have no problem eating roadkill deer, Venison is lovely. I wouldn't bother with pheasant as the meat would be bruised, and I wouldn't feed it to my dog as I couldn't cope with the evil farts she would inflict upon us from gamey meat. She has previously let rip, woken herself up, disgusted herself and moved to another room after such meats - if even she can't cope then that says it all.

hvd201

Oh, and I remember one time when I was about 7 and I had some friends, all girls, round at my house and my father came back from work one evening with a dead deer (roadkill), hung it up in the garage and said 'Mmmm, lets have Bambi burgers sometime'...my friends were horrified and one asked to go home. My best friend still remembers it to this day!

jackieblack

hvd201 wrote: »

I wouldn't feed it to my dog as I couldn't cope with the evil farts she would inflict upon us from gamey meat. She has previously let rip, woken herself up, disgusted herself and moved to another room after such meats - if even she can't cope then that says it all.

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bagby

yes Ive eaten it - going on holiday once when we knocked over a pheasant, picked it up and later bar b qued it - tough as old boots - it must have been about fifty year old

anthony_noel

Just shared a Roe Deer with my brother and sister

alfie123_2

vitamin_joe wrote: »

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."

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

Its only illegal if you run it over then pick it up that would be classed as poaching, but if someone else runs it over and you find it dead then thats ok..

zygurat789

Our cousins across the pond call it Roadside Pizza.( Sounds a lot more pleasant than roadkill)
Would that change anybody's mind?

chinbergs

Ugh, disgusting. I still find it bizarre and horrifying that people eat animals.

Pagg

Yes, especially if it dented my bumper. Might have to reverse back first to make sure it's a goner, though.













































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