Is there anything wrong with a vegetarian eating possum?

Question

I generally keep to a vegetarian diet partly because I don't feel that the whole concept of the wholesale slaughter of animals is very attarctive on my plate and I just feel better eating lighter food.

However, my driver happened to run over 2 possum and a woodchuck last night as he drove me home from the Save the Earth fund raiser I was attending (Not to worry. I had my gardener plant a tree to offset the carbon used by my limo).

I digress.

So seeing as how all 3 animals are dead anyway, is it ok from a moral standpoint to eat them?

Well, I'm not going to. But I figure that my help will. And it would save me a few bucks.

Answer 1

Ah, the scavenging question, an aspect we so convenientlly tend to overlook in our black and white society.
Strictly speaking now, vegetarians do not eat meat - period. But what you are suggesting is a new, possibly reflective atonement process of "cleaning up after civilization" - taking us right back to the roots of our civilization, and to a time when the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society was made, possibly out of convenience ("hey, it's already dead! How handy, let's take it home and tell Ma we killed it!").
That is very much in harmony with the essence of our time. Dead possums are Nature's Convenience Food.
I say, "Go Scavengers!"
Eaters of the world, re-unite.

Answer 2

Awesome Possum

Answer 3

oh Mark you crack me up! If you are a vegetarian then you wouldn't even consider eating a possum.. You would say a prayer over the little critters saying how sorry you were for driving on a road that was built on what used to be those critters habitat then you would by a bicycle and only travel on trails that didn't cause harm to their homes!!!!

Answer 4

If you eat possum or woodchuck, you can't call yourself a vegetarian. But there's nothing wrong with it ethically, if they're roadkill.
This reminds me of the character of Skink in Carl Hiassen's books. He eats roadkill. :)

Answer 5

nicely your paragraphs do not probably make lots experience so i'm going to in elementary terms answer your important question. because of the fact of this eating meat is on occasion incorrect: the beef marketplace is produced from many grasping people who care not something for our environment, the animals, or their workers. through this, the beef marketplace has substitute right into a important ingredient in international warming, polluting the earth oftentimes occurring in very super parts. they additionally do poor issues to the animals, alongside with forcing them in an exceedingly cramped section the place they are rigidity fed till brutally killed. the beef marketplace fat cats bribe human beings in congress to pass rules that they could fairly abide via, yet could rigidity many smaller meat businesses out of employer. additionally the approach between the animal being born and it fairly is arrival on the shop is disgusting. have you ever study "Animal Farm"? So in end i don't think of eating meat is inevitably incorrect, it fairly is executed in nature. yet helping those mega firms is very incorrect. And that has not something to do with faith.

Answer 6

Seems there is a carnivore sleeping inside of you ...as a real vegetarian you would not think about eating dead meat.

Answer 7

sure, slop it out to the help. seeing as how they were killed by vehicular manslaughter anyhow...
i think it best if you didn't eat the poor little critters yourself, because you do want to keep up the good vegetarian diet...

but your hired help need plenty of protein to take care of you, and waste not, want not...