Oregon Becomes Latest State to Allow Roadkill for Food.
Breitbart: Oregon has become the latest state to allow animals mowed down by vehicles to be harvested for human consumption.
The measure, which went into effect Tuesday, allows people to harvest meat from deer and elk which have been struck by vehicles, the Associated Press reported.
Oregon lawmakers first approved the measure— Senate Bill 372— in 2017.
But there is a catch for residents who want to make meat out of roadkill. The law states that residents have to apply for a permit within 24 hours if they want to use the meat of an elk or deer for food.
Did not know people ate meat there.
Well, what about PEOPLE that have been struck by vehicles? It would be a shame to let them go to waste.
What? No skunk or opossum?
I’ll pack my skinning knife in my truck from now on. My record for road kill and hunting is about equal, so this is good news. Only problem is that now that the greenies have re-introduced wolves to Oregon, the deers days are numbered.
Politicians have already told us we can eat shit, now they’re allowing us to eat roadkill.
I wonder if Venezuela requires a permit to eat trash?
Take this as a hint of impending food shortages to come.
Does this include long pork?
Pffffft.
Like anyone who had a notion to eat roadkill was worried about any laws against it…
Wait a sec … you need PERMISSION to eat roadkill?
“Permission” from whom, exactly? Who is the “rightful” owner?
And a bunch of hungry assholes are standing around waiting?
This is “The Onion,” right? Classified under “Ya Gotta Be Shittin Me!”
izlamo delenda est …
So that vagrant I accidentally hit can be on the menu? Nice, although I worry about meth contamination.
In Oregon, by law, all game animals belong to the state. Unless one walks into your property and drops dead. Then cost of disposal is borne by the property owner. Ain’t socialism wonderful?
For any of you that found a roadkill deer from Interstate 5 North of Eugene last night, please return my right headlight and right fender. Thanks.
“In Oregon, by law, all game animals belong to the state.”
Are the animals aware of this?
Do they get free shit?
Free corn (fo da deers) free black-oil sunflowers (fo da coons) and free scratch grains (fo da bunnies)?
Who voted for this?
The animals, themselves?
Ain’t that racist (or at least “species-ist”), or something?
Has PETA heard about this (animals BELONGING to the state, that is)?
I smell BULLSHIT!
izlamo delenda est …
I saw a road killed elk carcass that was skinned out in the back of a pickup. By the time I got through trimming away all the contusions there wouldn’t be enough left to make a dozen meals from, but that’s just me.
From what I understand the food banks are getting quite a bit of meat from “trophy hunters” who donate it, I wouldn’t touch the stuff. A lot of those guys are shooting SMK and Berger bullets these days and are all hyped up about the way they practically atomize on impact with flesh, my Noslers normally retain 85-90% of their weight. I am not all that wild about eating an animal that has 180 grains of fine lead particles that can’t be accounted for distributed throughout the meat.
I suppose roadkill big game makes good dog feed if a person has a pack of hounds or sled dogs to provide groceries to. My cousin lives next to a retired fish cop who picks up roadkill and puts it on a hill by his residence for raptors to eat.
Oregon drivers are bad enough already!* Now, they’re going to be aiming for the critters to supply the food banks.
(* But they don’t hold a candle to Soviet State drivers.)
This thread wouldn’t be complete w/o listening to what happened to Joe when he tried to claim his share of deer roadkill
Joe VS Deer 911 call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXKqbjicTs
So…… do the animals technically have to be on a “road”?
Cuz’ otherwise this is a wicked awesome “death race 2000” scenario come to life.
I mean, who hasn’t wanted to chase down elk with a big block engine and a front bumper with spikes welded onto it.
I have a friend who hit a large mule deer buck and knocked him over the snow bank into the trough that is formed by road clearing machinery. So he’s pissed because he had just bought a brand new Peterbilt 379 after dreaming about it his whole life.
He then gets the brilliant idea of turning the deer into sausage and grabs his tire iron and jumps from the front fender of the truck over the embankment and down into the ditch to find out who was the baddest badass around.
The deer ain’t having none of it and even though the collision hadn’t done him any good, it hadn’t killed him outright and he is about one pissed off hombre’ right about then.
And the fight was on and my buddy was tossed like a Goddamned ragdoll back out onto the roadway with multiple broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Now if someone can just catch that commie dyke Gov. jay walking and run her down…but I don’t know anyone that would eat that rancid old skank.
“Harvesting”
A pretty damn elegant word for scraping a squashed animal off the road with a shovel, isn’t it?
Maggots are great for tenderizing!
Years ago, I was returning from an elk hunt in Colorado. I saw many bulls but couldn’t shoot as I had a cow only tag. After driving 1,300 miles I was pulling into the little town where I live and just as I past the city limits sign, a whitetail buck ran right in front of my truck and I hit him. He hit the road spinning like a top and came to rest on the edge of the pavement. I immediately called the possum sheriff (game warden) because insurance companies often want a LEO report when you file a claim. While waiting for the possum sheriff, the buck regained his senses and staggered to his feet and slowly walked away like Hillary from a keg party. When the game warden showed up, he trailed him into the darkness but never found him. He said he was going to let me have it if we could find it. We never did. He wasn’t very badly damaged and he would have been a nice consolation prize after coming home empty handed. I should have taken my tire iron to that deer’s head when I had the chance.
I don’t know-a freezer full of meat is still a freezer full of meat whether you shoot it or hit it with your car/truck. But I would never pick up a carcass that I didn’t hit myself- who knows how long it had been in the road. common sense is all that’s needed not government crap to get in the way and make you pay for not only the road kill but to get your car/truck repaired. Report the kill? yea right…..
Two deer hit me within 2 years (notice I said they hit me), and I didn’t get to keep any meat…
The first bounced down the side of my mustang and flopped down in the road. I stopped, and while I was trying to find the emergency flasher switch I looked in the mirror and saw it get up, look around like “what the hell just happened?” and then trot off into the woods. $3,800 damages.
The second bounced down the side of my SUV. The road had no shoulder, so I couldn’t stop because it was dark, the road had a 50mph speed limit and I didn’t want to get runover. $1,900 damages.
And both were within 5 miles of my house.
JD, here is a similar story. A buddy of mine in Texas, is unhealthy big, usually 400-500 pounds, and is quite an accomplished hunter. Always has a couple guns with him. Except for this day. He comes across a scene that someone had hit a young buck and then left the deer in the road. It’s backs seemed paralyzed and the deer was clearly suffering but my buddy didn’t have a gun so he figured he’d get down and snap the deers neck and put it out of its misery. That was his first mistake, he straddled the deer and grabbed the base of both antlers and he couldn’t do anything with that poor deer, in fact it became a life or death wrestling match for each of them. There was a ditch along side the road with foot or so of water in it so he wrestled the deer into the ditch thinking he could drown it, he was afraid to let go of the antlers because he figured the deer would tear him to pieces. Once the deers head started underwater got a new shot of adrenaline in him and dragged him and my buddy out of the ditch back up on the shoulder of the road, keep in mind he’s 400 pounds and the deer is paralyzed on his back legs. He does have a long bladed knife and he knows he better risk letting go of one antler and get his knife out and defend himself. He successfully did that and delivered his first blow to the deers neck just as a school bus full of little kids pull up, and these poor kids witness a 400 pound man, and a deer both covered in mud and blood fighting to the death on the shoulder of the road. What a sight that must have been. My friend was trying to do the right thing for that deer and it ended up being one of the worst experiences of his life.
Wild animals are stronger than you can imagine.
@Joe6pak LOL I’m a Texan and that sounds normal to me.
Hambone, yup, Texans know how to have a good time.
Oregon Pro tip
Pop the the bloated carcass with a long stick first.
When we were kids, my brother and I found a dead cow floating in a canal that had swollen to the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. We tried like hell to pop it with our BB guns but couldn’t. In retrospect, it’s a good thing we didn’t have a .22 rifle with us.
Yea well, I’m not eating it if it doesn’t have a UDSA stamp on it and the asphalt dug out of the back straps. I’m not a big fan of Fly Larva either. Just sayen,