Eating Roadkill

Folks in CA can now legaly eat roadkill. I wonder if they know to cook it throughly after it has been there 10 days or more?

https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/new-california-law-allow-drivers-roadkill

It’s the new CA. gubberment initiative to simultaneously feed and reduce the homeless population.

Had a guy tell me as a kid, when the went to town they circled the roadkill with chalk. Then on the way back the picked up anything without a circle.

Just read the article. Not quite so dramatic after all.

It allows for the salvage of unintentionally killed deer and other usable game animals.

my friends from PA
ate it all the time
mainly deer

They've been doing that in Wisconsin since the dawn of time. If you have multiple drivers in your family, somebody is likely to whack a deer at some point in the year. Might as well salvage it.

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Knew a guy in Mississippi whose grandfather worked at Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula. He lived in about an hour north of the coast. On the way to work, he mark any roadkill with a circle of spray paint. On the way home after a 12 hour shift, he would pick up any that had not been picked up by scavengers and take it home and clean it. He said they would throw whatever they had in a pot and cook it for a while...Roadkill Stew...

Never understood why states would let deer go to waste. There just can’t be that many people willing to risk their vehicle to purposefully hit a deer to eat.

Isn't this normal way of shopping in Louisiana.

saw a guy hit a good sized mule deer doe just outside durango co. and stopped to put it down (he was a tourist and freakin out about it). called gw to tell him what was up and he came and got the deer, dressed it and gave it to a local shelter.

they won't let it go to waste if it is fresh and able to be salvaged, always goes to a shelter/needy.

Did you see that contraption on the front of Dfitz truck?

I've known a couple GWs here in Texas that if they got a call and could confirm how recent the kill was they would donate the meat

Yeah, I just don’t think that happens enough for it to make it illegal for the people involved in true accidents to eat the meat. I know, like Hop said, that wardens will process fresh ones and donate it, but I still see enough dead and rotting deer on the road to know that isn’t always the case.

This is true. My Uncle ran a gas station in a small town and knew the Game Wardens well. They would often bring a fresh killed deer to him and he would make venison stew. Always had something to offer folks to eat when they stopped in. Nothing wrong with it if it is fresh.

Road kill pizza is a delicacy. Nothing like a little skunk and possum with parmesan cheese, black olives, and anchovies. The anchovies pretty much kill out the skunk taste.

I would not waste my time. In most cases roadkill meat is bruised and bloody. Now sometimes you run across one like my BIL did south of Pittsburgh. He saw a spike stick its head up in the median on IH 79. He got his tire iron out and finished it off. He said it was just dazed and the meat was in good shape.

When I worked nights we had a network of people here we would call when we euthanized an injured deer. Game Warden was never involved but I always gave them my card if they got stopped. We have an incredible amount of deer hit when the rut starts.

When I was a kid, I drove around moving roadkill from circles painted around them. I did it in FTW and one hour north of Pascagoula

I drive 281 from Hico to Lampassas during deer season. During the rut it can be wild even in the middle of the day.

No joke. Can't even drive the speed limit on a full moon night!

During my 7 year collegiate career in San Marcos, I was often the lucky recipient of those deer. Even had a SMPD squad car pull up outside my house with a 50# hog on the trunk lid. The cop asked me if I knew how to clean that one. Yessir I do!
I always deboned a shoulder and gave that to whichever cop hooked us up with the deer. We had a spreader hanging from a tree in our front yard year round.