Roadkill-Do People Eat This?

Question

I was listening to radio program the other night and they were saying that they ate roadkill.

Now I could never do this.

But are there any genuine people out there who do indeed eat roadkill?

Thanks

Answer 1

Fresh, pre-tenderized road kill is no problem.
The old stuff is unsafe.

Little difference between killing with a 30-06 and a Chevy.

Answer 2

This is an article that was in 'Roads and Bridges' magazine:

The buck stops here
There’s never an acceptable reason for stealing an ambulance, but there are some really interesting ones.

For instance, last month Leon Holliman stole an ambulance in Jacksonville, Fla., after breaking out of a psychiatric facility. Police eventually found the 37-year-old escapee driving the ambulance through North Carolina dressed like a doctor. But that’s not even the weird part.

When highway patrol examined the ambulance, they discovered that Holliman had stuffed a dead deer into the back of the vehicle. The six-point buck appeared to have been dead for some time.

When asked why he was transporting a dead deer in a stolen ambulance, Holliman told a North Carolina trooper that he planned to “feed [the deer] to his people.”

Answer 3

Yes, I'm think deer and elk, it depends upon how long the carcass has been on the road.

From a news article regarding poaching, but the same idea holds:
"While we were travelling down a country road, we saw a dead deer, off to the side. The sharp eyes of the Game Department official I was with, could see it was a doe; so the killing of it was illegal.

We stopped and I asked why. He then explained that if the deer had not been dead too long, they'd give the carcass to a local orphanage for meat (food use).

He inserted a rectal thermometer and then just shook his head, as he saw the numbers.

"Been dead too long," he said. Then, he just pulled it off to a wooded area, off to the side of the road and left it for the predators."

Answer 4

Yes, there are people that eat road kill. And realistically, as long as it is freshly killed there's no reason the meat would not be good. Personally I wouldn't want to do it, but honestly it shouldn't be an issue.

Now, you understand that I mean you don't eat that squirrel that's been run over by heavy traffic for a day and a half. I'm talking about a deer that gets creamed by a truck and gets turned into dinner later that night.

Answer 5

Yes, as weird as it sounds, some people do, lol!

I grew up in West Virginia (ok, no need for hillbilly jokes and the incest jokes are for Kentucky! lol!), and a bit before I moved, they were trying to get people to take home any animals that they hit along the roads. Now, granted even most people in West Virginia think this is disgusting... but there are who do it, lol! I'm pretty sure that those who do only go after fresh kills though. I doubt anyone goes after the stuff that's been there so long it's bloated to twice its size or that's been ran over so many times it'd really take a spatula to remove it.
*blegh!*

Answer 6

Roadkill story...

My father was a head & neck surgeon [otolarygology or ENT]... one day he brought home photos of a man whose face was "spit in two"... grusome

a deer had been hit but wasn't dead... the man knew the game warden lived nearby... so he walked down the road to get permission to take the deer...

Walking back to get the deer.. the man was hit by a car...

Dad rebuilt his face [but the guy didn't get his roadkill deer]

Answer 7

Hi yes genuine people do eat roadkill there is a man that lives in the streets and he once done that it was horrible and the smell was enought to make you feel sick.Also if you are a topgear fan they had to eat a cow from the side of the road.Word of advice NO1 should try it its horrible.

Answer 8

it really depends on what's been hit , some people will take a deer or other large animal that's freshly hit , assuming it's not gut busted , i've known a few who have taken deer and even 2 who have taken cows . 1 imparticular took a cow after the deputy stated he'd take it if they didn't. they used a come -a-long to get it up in there.

Answer 9

Where I live road kill deer disappear immediately. I even know of a case locally where an argument erupted over who got to keep the dead deer-it was between the man who hit the deer and the man whose property the killed deer landed on.

Answer 10

i haven't ate roadkill yet yet i could looking on what it grew to become into, years in the past a 40 footer in front of me smashed right into a purple deer on a rustic street late at night. i ended the bike and had a looksie to ascertain if i ought to snag a unfastened vension steak. there grew to become into bugger all left of the deer, its guts stretched for 0.5 a mile. Venison pancake! posh nosh for crows yet too messy for this biker.