Why is it sociably unacceptable to eat road kill?

seems it is any animal, but really who's going to prosecute or find out.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4239...cacy___road_kill/?action=complain&cid=7609148
However, before picking up road kill, there are certain laws to be aware of. It is illegal to run over an animal and then eat it so, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the game animal would belong to the land owner, which would be the Highways Agency. But if the car in front hits the animal, then it is fine for someone else to pick it up and cook.
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Theophany said:
Because people cba to stop and examine the remains of whatever just got a 70mph acquaintance with their front bumper?

And why would you want to eat other people's road kill? We make a big enough bloody fuss about the origins of the meat we eat in this country, it would be a touch crass to then starting feeding on god-knows-how-old-or-infested road kill.



I tried to think of a Michelin reference joke and failed. If anybody else wants it, it's theirs!
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If the carcass is fresh then there's no problem, obviously don't go taking something that's stiff as a brick and stinking
 
actually where i stay, folk do it a lot. all though not rabbit :p but pheasant and if you are luck you might find a deer.

Only if it's been killed hour before tho. but i wouldn't say there is anything wrong with it.

i've never done it myself, i wouldn't know how to gut anything lol
 
JBuk said:
If the carcass is fresh then there's no problem, obviously don't go taking something that's stiff as a brick and stinking
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The point I'm making is who on Earth hits an animal and then immediately pulls over to run back 50 yards and check if the remains are suitable for filleting and eating? :confused:

Dangerous to other motorists and totally unnecessary. Good meat ain't that expensive...
 
I imagine because, usually, when a car hits a small fluffy animal, full of little bones and internal organs which are mostly full of gross stuff, the small fluffy animal becomes a small pile of squishy mush.

There is a very good reason why when skinning and gutting a rabbit you have to be very careful with the guts.
 
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Theophany said:
The point I'm making is who on Earth hits an animal and then immediately pulls over to run back 50 yards and check if the remains are suitable for filleting and eating? :confused:

Dangerous to other motorists and totally unnecessary
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Common sense really , depends what you hit and where , you're not gonna run down a busy A road to grab a pheasant

Good meat ain't that expensive...[/
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road kill is just as good a meat as any other, go and buy a whole deer carcass and see how expensive it is ;)
 
JBuk said:
Common sense really , depends what you hit and where , you're not gonna run down a busy A road to grab a pheasant



road kill is just as good a meat as any other, go and buy a whole deer carcass and see how expensive it is ;)
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Where are you going to store an entire deer carcass?? :p
 
I think it's absurd that it's socially unacceptable to eat road kill. I did it once and got into serious trouble.

I wouldn't mind, but it was the stupid old woman's fault for just walking out in front of my car when I happened to be peckish :mad:






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I think I heard that the eyes are a good indicator of time since death - if they're covered in flies or rotting away then it's too old, but if the eyes look in reasonably good condition then it is probably fresh enough to eat (after cooking thoroughly obviously).

I suppose large stuff like badgers could be a real pain to prepare - it's take ages skinning and gutting them if you weren't used to it, and it might be too big to fit in the freezer if you can't eat it all, so you'd have to hack it into little bits and get all the bones out and stuff. Preparing an animal from recently live state takes a while. (on my 'expedition' to Bolivia 2 guys bought a chicken and killed it, it must have taken about 2 hours just to get it ready for cooking, but then again we only had penknives, and guesswork to help us).
 
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When I used to live in the Scottish borders I used to drive about 15 miles down a country road to work in the morning , when coming home I used to pick any freshly flattened pheasants and rabbits.
The dogs used to get the rabbits (cooked) and I used to make soup with the pheasants as most of the time the pheasants bones where smashed up and too much hassle to fillet.
 
Not road kill, but i eat squirell and pigeon on a regular basis after i have shot them. Never fancied trying magpie or crow though.
 
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