If You Don't Kill It?

[oneshot 1]

Ok all our meat is either raised ( Chickens and Rabbits ) or Hunted and Fished for. We don't pass up anything including Possums and Carp.

Last year I was told no hunting or fishing. So I was laid up during Deer Season. We got on list to pick up Road Kill. They would call us, tell us where a Fresh Road Kill Deer was and we would pick it up. We got 4 Deer only one was too bad to use.

Would you eat Road Kill if you couldn't hunt or even if you could?

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[hotfxr]

Oh heck yeah. At least back a few years ago I would have. As it was, large road kill was picked up by the fish cops and taken to the local res. I wound up delivering a few and they were well received. I have no idea what goes on now.

[William]

Well, it depends on a number of things such as time of year, type of animal and how long it's been laying there. A deer that's just gone down and isn't torn up, then yes. Possum; never.

[Dogshirt]

Well, it depends on a number of things such as time of year, type of animal and how long it's been laying there. A deer that's just gone down and isn't torn up, then yes. Possum; never.

I was in the Army with a guy from Alabama that told me "Possum ain't food!" Since we don't have them here I don't think I have to worry about it.

[Tim Ault]

I would if there was usable meat on it . I work a side job at a local butcher shop processing deer and we have taken in a few road kills for folks mainly in the colder months of the year , most aren't too bad with approx 25-50 percent waste . Some can be quite messy to skin and butcher tho , but in a pinch I would have a problem with using road kill meat from an animal if I knew it wasn't spoiled .

[bmtshooter]

I always thought that when folks "don't like" something edible, it just meant that they were not hungry enough to eat it at that time.  We have been blessed with so much to eat that we can turn up our noses at some things.  When you get hungry enough, it will all be delicious ...... eh?

[Hanshi]

Back in Ga. any deer on the road went to the fire dept and they would BBQ it.  If they didn't need it the finder/hitter got it or the cops took it for a cookout.  Possums were usually too messed up and armadillos, well, let's just say it is way below possum; even though some called it "possum on the half shell".   I've eaten snake, possum, turtle and other things but would have to be really hungry to eat armadillo they do carry leprosy, in case you're not familiar with them.  Leprosy is very, very, very difficult to catch unless you have a compromised immune system.   

[William]

 would have to be really hungry to eat armadillo they do carry leprosy, in case you're not familiar with them.  Leprosy is very, very, very difficult to catch unless you have a compromised immune system.

That would be me.

[William]

I always thought that when folks "don't like" something edible, it just meant that they were not hungry enough to eat it at that time.  We have been blessed with so much to eat that we can turn up our noses at some things.  When you get hungry enough, it will all be delicious ...... eh?

Not if it's potentially deadly, no matter how hungry you are. Case and point; when I was a child the sight of oysters on the half shell was repulsive even though my parents love them and always offered to let me try one. I came to love them as an adult and scoffed at anyone who didn't like them. Then I had to have a bone marrow transplant which left me with a less than normal immune system. One of the things that could potentially kill me are the bacteria normally found in raw oysters and otherwise seafood. It's not that I don't like that sort of food, it's just that I'd rather starve than risk another round of sepsis. Like I said before when I answered the original question, "it depends" on lots of things as to whether I'd eat it or not.
My great grandmother, whom I called Oma loved possum but her daughter in law, my grandmother, just could not stand gutting one more "greasy rat" again in her kitchen without vomiting. Oma didn't stop liking possum but she was unable to catch and prepare the little beasties herself anymore. I'm sure if it came down to it and facing starvation the family would eat possum again but my grandmother wouldn't be the one cooking it at least.
Indeed we are blessed with plenty to eat and it is a shame that we end up throwing away so much of it every year.

[cward]

of course!! within reason anyways. in fact you know you're a reenactor  when you run over a squirrel and have to decide if you have enough time to go back and get it!

[William]

LOL!

[Hanshi]

Possum's quite good in actuality, but caught wild ones are often noxious from feeding on dead animals.  My neighbor would take the ones I killed (as a kid) and he also penned the caught ones up and fed them for a few weeks to "cleanse" them.  I no longer will catch or kill a possum.  They are intelligent and can make fine pets - you can't really say that for coons.  Back when I was a kid one took up with a friend's family.  The little guy liked to be held and would cuddle the way a cat did.  They have soft fur and are related to kangaroos.