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One time I happened across a suspiciously roadkilled moose. I was there before the flies were. I would have had no qualms about eating it but alas I was drivi
by potato3732842 2y ago
One time I happened across a suspiciously roadkilled moose. I was there before the flies were. I would have had no qualms about eating it but alas I was driving a rental and while I could have butchered it with a box cutter I would have had nothing to do with the meat.
FYI the reason you don't generally want to eat roadkill is that the trauma and blood clotting does something bad to the meat quality. I don't know the exact details but that's what I've been told.
- PaulHoule 2y agoLast year we saw a roadkill buck on the side of the road with a huge rack when my wife was driving me to work. My wife contacted a hunter friend, by the time they got it somebody had cut off the rack, but we got the rest of the carcass and butchered it. See https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lckxwbxfm22r https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lckxwbxfm22r you can have meat ruined in the area impacted (by a car or bullet) but we had very little of that and got a huge amount of very good meat that we ate for months. (Our guess is that the value of the meat in a roadkill is on the order of fixing the damage from an accident)
- M3L0NM4N 2y agoInevitably, the chunk of meat that was impacted by the vehicle is less deer meat and more deer jello. The less battered parts of the deer can be fine, though.