Kill It & Grill It? Roadkill Could Become Legal To Eat in California

CBS Sacramento ^ | 02/21/2019 | Steve Large

[sevinufnine]

Get ready to break out your recipes for roadkill. Eating wild animals killed by a car could soon become legal in California. Senator Bob Archuleta introduced a so-called “you kill it, you grill it” bill at the Capitol this week. The bill reads, “each year it is estimated that over 20,000 deer alone are hit by vehicles on California roadways. This translates into hundreds of thousands of pounds of healthy meat that could be utilized to feed those in need.” It’s a recipe for unusual dinnertime conversation.

[sevinufnine]

Ian Higgs is a custom butcher at Roseville Meat Company. “You’re gonna get a lot of loss, so there’s not much you’re gonna get out of the animal after it’s been hit like that,” Higgs said. Higgs has worked on his butcher craft, harvesting meat, for over a decade. “It’s definitely an art,” Higgs said. He says you can’t harvest much edible meat from roadkill. The trauma from most deadly collisions makes the meat go bad. “You can’t eat dirt, you know and the thing is when it gets hit that hard, you’re gonna have a lot of tough meat,” Higgs said.

California is following more than twenty other states that have already made eating roadkill legal.

[sevinufnine]

Frog legs. YUM!!

[riverrunner]

I have pick up a fair amount of road kill.

Some are useful some are not.

Loss is solely dependent on what part of the animal is hit.

The best ones are head hits.

[ASOC]

Been eating road kill moose for decades - of course, this is Alaska....

[sevinufnine]

Can you imagine how nasty the meet would be if the gut was busted? Eww!

[sevinufnine]

Been eating road kill moose for decades - of course, this is Alaska....

I’m sure the cars don’t fare well.

[mbarker12474]

Does the animal have to be killed by automobile or truck per the proposed legislation?

Can one, per the leg., shoot a deer standing on the road with, say, a FIREARM, and then take that sucker home and turn it into sausage?

[Sopater]

Creates some additional business opportunity.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Why was it ever illegal?

I mean, I wouldn’t do it, but if somebody out there wants to do it and does not fear getting ill as a result, why is it the state’s business to stop them?

[moovova]

“Yep, I was driving thru that corn field, and that deer jumped right out in front of me.”

[Don Corleone]

May become necessary nationwide if the Marxists take over. Ref:Venezuela

Oops. No road kill because no cars. No Cars/Trucks because no oil. What a plan for our children's future.

Go Commies! Go! Go! Go!

AOC is a blithering IDIOT!

[Grampa Dave]

How many chefs and other good cooks carry skinning/slicing knnives and bone saws in the back of their pickups/trunks to slice and dice any deer that they kill or saw getting killed?

Answer: A lot!

Apparently, the best pieces of deer meat, the back straps are often not harmed after becoming road kill, just tenderized.

Those who like the hearts and livers carry large zip lock baggies for these highway gifts.

[Grampa Dave]

Someone killed Kermit!

It wasn’t easy being Green for poor Kermit!

[JimRed]

This translates into hundreds of thousands of pounds of healthy meat that could be utilized to feed those in need.”

Which does NOT include YOU, SUV driver with whose vehicle the deer collided!

"Need" will be determined by a Fish, Game and Wildlife bureaucrat.

[blueunicorn6]

If they start eating skunks in California, the Democrat Party will have a hard time finding candidates.

[Tenacious 1]

He says you can’t harvest much edible meat from roadkill. The trauma from most deadly collisions makes the meat go bad.

For those that are interested in the "why" of this... When certain bowels and organs are ruptured in an animal collision, there are fluids that leak into otherwise edible tissues (Is that a clean enough explanation)?

Any hunter who has had a misplaced shot understands the urgency and challenge that can follow a kill to get the animal properly field dressed quickly. It's always messy depending on varying degrees of skill. But field dressing a gut shot deer can make you wish you hadn't had breakfast.

[Viking2002]

Ain’t nothing. Down here in Alabama, the highway median in known as ‘the buffet line’.

[Theoria]

Kings property. The King owns the birds that fly, fish that swim, and beasts that walk.

[mplc51]

I am in Minnesota on a farm. I pick up Deer all the time. Take it to the barn and the cats Love it.

[trebb]

Unless I knew is very fresh, I wouldn’t want to try any recipes....OTOH, meat is meat.
Can’t see making it illegal for private citizens to eat it if they want but wouldn’t want to dine anyplace that served it.