Roadkill- look away vegans and vegetarians

I agree with suedonim and quizqueen leave roadkill to the foxes, and as a lifelong vegetarian the thought of any dead animal tasting 'delicious' ...yuk!

I’m veggie but I think eating roadkill more acceptable than people who will only eat meat sold in sanitised plastic trays and wouldn’t dream of visiting an abattoir or electrocuting a chicken. I would think roadkill probably better to eat than animals forced into small cages and treated with hormones , antibiotics etc . I’d leave it for the crows or birds of prey.

I used to be on a site for people who keep chickens. One man would collect road kill, put the body in a wire basket suspended above the chicken run, so that as it rotted, the birds got the maggots.....The thought revolted me, and my own little darlings only got the best laying pellets, weeds, curl grubs I found while gardening, and veggie peelings. (Though I'm sure they'd have loved roadkill maggots!)

Hello, Joan. Unless I'm mistaken, you haven't been around for ages. Welcome back.

I knew someone who ate it and actually moved to his current address because of the quantity of local roadkill. He was a repulsive little man and didn’t inspire me to follow his example.

My DD has to drive every day in rural Wisconsin and wild animals are a regular hazard. Deer are the worst. Locals say it’s the second one that gets you - you see the first and the second one crashes into your car. Someone was killed that way recently, when driving to the hospital where his wife was in labour. An awful thing to happen.

I have never eaten roadkill but I once asked DH to stop the car so that we could pick up a fresh looking cock pheasant carcass lying in the road. I didn’t want to eat it, but it would have kept me in fly tying feathers for eons! He refused, on the grounds that it was a new car and he didn’t want to sully his boot with dead things. I sulked.

I would eat road kill if I didn’t have a phobia about dead things. I find it very hard to touch or even go near anything with it’s clothes, head and feet/fins still on. I can and have skinned rabbits and plucked chickens - but only after several stiff drinks and someone else removing the heads. I wouldn’t know where to start with a deer. I wouldn’t eat badger or fox, but I’m not sure why.

I consume deer, rabbit and game birds and I don’t really see the difference between eating road kill and something which has been shot. Any wild thing may carry disease however its killed.

I think you're right midgey you can only take road kill if it's been killed, not if you're the killer.

My son's friend hit a large deer (it wrote the car off but thankfully he, partner and small son were fine). He went back and took the head, cleaned it and now has the skull with antlers on the wall!!!! Not sure what his OH thinks but I think she's used to his eccentricities!

My son picks up road kill, rabbit, deer &pheasant....he is good at the butchery side of it too?....he portions it up and freezes it.