where the roadkill goes?

Answer 1

Sometimes called the highway supermarket, roadkill, if not diseased and sufficiently fresh, is entirely safe to eat. A number of cookbooks specifically for roadkill have been written.

Roadkill is sometimes a part of pet foods protein.

Between 1992 and 1999 there was a restaurant chain in New England called the Road Kill Cafe which pretended to serve road killed animals.

A problem with eating road kill is the tendency for small particles of bone from impact to embedded in the surrounding tissue. This is especially common in multiple hit road kill.

Answer 2

1. People eat roadkill.

2. Scavengers eat roadkill. Here in California we have mountain lions, coyotes, and bears, all of which love roadkill. We also have hawks, falcons, and condors, which will eat carrion of all types. Of course the roadkill has to be in the mountains, or at least the foothills. But down where I live, we have oppossums, which will eat meat in any form. However, I was once in Illinois and drove past a dead raccoon for three days straight before I had to be elsewhere. No coyotes in Illinois.

3. The sanitation department pick them up. In the city, this is generally what happens to dead cats and dogs.

4. Normal biological processes. In hot weather, especially hot moist weather, insects alone can strip a corpse in a matter of weeks. If an animal is thrown to the roadside by the impact, it may not need larger predators.

5. In the desert, snakes that are run over may simply mummify on the road. I've seen this more than once in areas where normal predators are driven away by traffic and other human activities.

6. Other human use. I've never heard the cosmetology story before, but I do know that in areas where roadkill includes deer, larger animals are gathered and butchered for feeding to animals in shelters.

Answer 3

In some places in Northern Ontario (Thunder Bay and area) in the winter time the roadkill is often taken to a side road where I have seen large numbers of deer and moose simply piled in a certain area.Most of these are soon eaten by other animals such as fox,wolf,birds etc. What the MNR or police is to do about this I do not know.

Answer 4

My sister worked with birds of prey and they went out every week to find roadkill. Anything that was healthy was given to the birds. Sometimes roadkill is picked up by highway management and sometimes it's left to decay or be eaten by other wild animals.

Answer 5

Oddly I came across this just last night on a site called Passeport Santé. Roadkill, euthanized animals, sickly animals, meat improper for food consumption are put in a vat and cooked. This forms a greasy scum which floats at the top and is used in lipstick and cosmetics. The remaining is feed to the farm animals. I don`t know if this procedure applies in Canada. So just imagine what we are eating and putting on our faces. This means that we are feeding herbivores a carnivorous diet which one can question its fitness for human consumption. And then we question why there are so many cancers.