If you are easily grossed out stop reading now.
A little background on me. We raise our own organic beef and pork and we just butchered a hog and steer last Thursday. I’m used to blood, guts, and skinned animals but even I think what’s below is pretty sick.
Last week I was taking my daughter #2 into town to drop her off at school and saw a big wild pig had been ran over and someone had cut off it’s head and took it’s body. YUCK! Judging by the size of the pig’s head I think it was at least 300 pounds. An hour later I went back into town and saw the head was missing, I think someone took it. Sounds like road killed wild hog is on the menu at someone’s house this Thanksgiving.
As if that wasn’t enough, exactly two days later I was just outside of Reno, NV on I80 and saw a buck with a very nice set of horns had been hit and killed by a car or truck. A car was pulled over near the buck and I could see two people walking away from the buck with one antler in their hand. We drove by where the buck had been approximately 4 hour later and he was gone! Maybe someone is going to make some Buck Stew for Thanksgiving???
I think picking up road kill is seriously gross. How do these people that are taking the dead animals know how long the animal has been dead? Call me naive but wouldn’t there be rocks and dirt in the meat? Maybe a cigarette butt or two? Blow Fly larva? I would also think the meat would be contaminated if any of the guts had ripped.
I grew up in Central California and my Grandpa always told me to stay away from Taco Trucks because they used road kill for their tacos. LOL – free meat!
Would you take the animal if you had ran it over and knew it was fresh?
Would you ever consider picking up road kill and feeding it to your family?
My answers are NO and Hell No.
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My husband and I used to clean buildings for his mom and one of the building managers was an archer and a hunter. He came to our house one Sunday morning early and taught us how to butcher and process our two Barbados Black Bellied sheep. He told us a story of one time how he saw a deer get hit on a bridge and it was knocked into the water. He said he grabbed his hunting knife, jumped in the water and swam to it to put it out of its misery, then dragged it back to shore, gutted it and took it home. I guess if you just saw it happen, it wouldn’t be so bad. I would probably consider taking road kill to process and cook for our dogs, they wouldn’t care.
However, we only get coyotes and skunks as road kill here in the Arizona desert. I wouldn’t consider taking either of those.
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