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Started 1 year ago by TomOver
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TomOver
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Would those of us on Columbus Underground who've eaten roadkill please offer their insights ?

At a recent dinner with mostly vegan food--(think Dumpster dive-derived honey and butter)-- a guy told us about dining on raccoons, squirrels, and other animals killed as they crossed paths with automobiles.

At least so far, I like the idea of having the skill and knowledge to gut and otherwise prepare an animal for use as food, or for some other purpose.

That is, so long as I can do so while doing my best to minimize harm to the environment and minimize my contribution to the suffering of humans and other animals.

I don't have an intrinsic--or a sort of religious--aversion to eating or otherwise using animal products (including humans.)

The animal is already dead, and I don't readily have a sense of how taking its newly killed body and using it for food or even for fur would be wrong.

Or would using that fur somehow make a statement to other people about it being ok if they saw me, for example, wearing a raccoon fur scarf as I cycle next winter ?

Would it be better for the biosphere to simply let the flies and crows and dehydration have at it with that dead squirrel or raccoon, leaving nothing but a mat of sorts pressed to the pavement ?

Posted 1 year ago #
joev
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Well, flies and crows do have to eat something.

Posted 1 year ago #
drew

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joev wrote >>
Well, flies and crows do have to eat something.

Eating road kill causes suffering to scavengers. I cannot approve of such behavior!

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I have thought about eating roadkill, too. Seems like it would be hard to find it early enough. When I have seen a deer that looks freshly hit, I think "holy crap, I should get out and get some of that" but then kind of worry about how I would carve it up without being harassed. Pull over to block the view? You would have to be fast to avoid police curiosity. Not illegal, I don't think, but still, who wants to draw attention?

I do know from when I used to fish that it is important to get the guts out soon, as the intestines become permeable soon after death, and bacteria leaches out. Also, I have heard reports from my southern Ohio friends that their families do not eat squirrels caught in August because of a parisite called "warbles".

Any thoughts?

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rabbit wrote >>
I have thought about eating roadkill, too. Seems like it would be hard to find it early enough. When I have seen a deer that looks freshly hit, I think "holy crap, I should get out and get some of that" but then kind of worry about how I would carve it up without being harassed. Pull over to block the view? You would have to be fast to avoid police curiosity. Not illegal, I don't think, but still, who wants to draw attention?

You can get on the deer "call list" with the OHP and Sheriff's offices to get called when a deer kill is reported.

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buckeye212

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You've really lost your mind. Please seek professional help.

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buckeye212 wrote >>
You've really lost your mind. Please seek professional help.

Ha! Honey, I *am* professional help.

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Bear
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My AP Bio teacher had us keep our eyes out for freshly-killed deer on the way in to school. One day we got there and found a note that said "Meet at my house." We carpooled up there and he was already field-dressing the deer... got a biology lesson out of it and he got a freezer full of meat.

Intestine had burst, though... that made things pretty unpleasant when he unzipped the abdomen.

So, you can do it.

He also had clothes made out of the skin... etc.

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gramarye
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One time a substitute physiology teacher in high school surprised us all with a goose he hit on the way to school. We got a bio lesson out of it, too, but good grief, the guy giving it was a flake.

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Walker
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gramarye wrote >>
One time a substitute physiology teacher in high school surprised us all with a goose he hit on the way to school. We got a bio lesson out of it, too, but good grief, the guy giving it was a flake.

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Posted 1 year ago #
Roland
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Thurn's will process deer for you. I don't know if they accept roadkill deer though.

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spookygoddess78
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Bear wrote >>
My AP Bio teacher had us keep our eyes out for freshly-killed deer on the way in to school. One day we got there and found a note that said "Meet at my house." We carpooled up there and he was already field-dressing the deer... got a biology lesson out of it and he got a freezer full of meat.
Intestine had burst, though... that made things pretty unpleasant when he unzipped the abdomen.
So, you can do it.
He also had clothes made out of the skin... etc.

Was the teacher's name Hannibal Lector by any chance? ;-)

Posted 1 year ago #
jarsloth
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They had two segments on National Geographic's "Taboo" about this very subject; one was a couple in Australia who dumpster dived for their vegetables. The other segment was about a man in Britain who collected and prepared roadkill for dinner. He had a freezer chest to keep all the roadkill he couldn't eat right away. It was really interesting; both were doing it not out of economic need, but out of ideological concern. Interesting indeed; though I don't have any moral conviction strong enough to warrant that type of behavior.

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Bear
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spookygoddess78 wrote >>

Bear wrote >>
My AP Bio teacher had us keep our eyes out for freshly-killed deer on the way in to school. One day we got there and found a note that said "Meet at my house." We carpooled up there and he was already field-dressing the deer... got a biology lesson out of it and he got a freezer full of meat.
Intestine had burst, though... that made things pretty unpleasant when he unzipped the abdomen.
So, you can do it.
He also had clothes made out of the skin... etc.

Was the teacher's name Hannibal Lector by any chance? ;-)

He was a piece of work. I remember one lecture where he showed us different stones that could form in the body -- kidney stones, bladder stones, gallstones. Had actual samples in class, really cool. Then he held up one we couldn't identify: maybe 3/4" to 1" long, cream colored, slightly pitted surface. We puzzled over it... until he popped it in his mouth and started chewing. After witnessing our horrified expressions and having a good laugh, he said, "Yogurt-covered raisin."

He sure did make biology class interesting.

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Bear wrote >>

spookygoddess78 wrote >>

Bear wrote >>
My AP Bio teacher had us keep our eyes out for freshly-killed deer on the way in to school. One day we got there and found a note that said "Meet at my house." We carpooled up there and he was already field-dressing the deer... got a biology lesson out of it and he got a freezer full of meat.
Intestine had burst, though... that made things pretty unpleasant when he unzipped the abdomen.
So, you can do it.
He also had clothes made out of the skin... etc.

Was the teacher's name Hannibal Lector by any chance? ;-)

He was a piece of work. I remember one lecture where he showed us different stones that could form in the body -- kidney stones, bladder stones, gallstones. Had actual samples in class, really cool. Then he held up one we couldn't identify: maybe 3/4" to 1" long, cream colored, slightly pitted surface. We puzzled over it... until he popped it in his mouth and started chewing. After witnessing our horrified expressions and having a good laugh, he said, "Yogurt-covered raisin."
He sure did make biology class interesting.

Sounds like his class would have been a lot of fun. =)

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lifeontwowheels
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Bear wrote >>

spookygoddess78 wrote >>

Bear wrote >>
My AP Bio teacher had us keep our eyes out for freshly-killed deer on the way in to school. One day we got there and found a note that said "Meet at my house." We carpooled up there and he was already field-dressing the deer... got a biology lesson out of it and he got a freezer full of meat.
Intestine had burst, though... that made things pretty unpleasant when he unzipped the abdomen.
So, you can do it.
He also had clothes made out of the skin... etc.

Was the teacher's name Hannibal Lector by any chance? ;-)

He was a piece of work. I remember one lecture where he showed us different stones that could form in the body -- kidney stones, bladder stones, gallstones. Had actual samples in class, really cool. Then he held up one we couldn't identify: maybe 3/4" to 1" long, cream colored, slightly pitted surface. We puzzled over it... until he popped it in his mouth and started chewing. After witnessing our horrified expressions and having a good laugh, he said, "Yogurt-covered raisin."
He sure did make biology class interesting.

I had a similar science teacher. He told us when he first started teaching, they used cats that had been put down at the shelter for dissection. Apparently one of the students had spent a summer working on a relatives ranch out west and learned how to do taxidermy and work with fur. So he prepped the cat fur and made a stole. Tried to offer money to any girl that would wear it to prom.

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Twixlen
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lifeontwowheels wrote >>

Bear wrote >>

spookygoddess78 wrote >>

Bear wrote >>
My AP Bio teacher had us keep our eyes out for freshly-killed deer on the way in to school. One day we got there and found a note that said "Meet at my house." We carpooled up there and he was already field-dressing the deer... got a biology lesson out of it and he got a freezer full of meat.
Intestine had burst, though... that made things pretty unpleasant when he unzipped the abdomen.
So, you can do it.
He also had clothes made out of the skin... etc.

Was the teacher's name Hannibal Lector by any chance? ;-)

He was a piece of work. I remember one lecture where he showed us different stones that could form in the body -- kidney stones, bladder stones, gallstones. Had actual samples in class, really cool. Then he held up one we couldn't identify: maybe 3/4" to 1" long, cream colored, slightly pitted surface. We puzzled over it... until he popped it in his mouth and started chewing. After witnessing our horrified expressions and having a good laugh, he said, "Yogurt-covered raisin."
He sure did make biology class interesting.

I had a similar science teacher. He told us when he first started teaching, they used cats that had been put down at the shelter for dissection. Apparently one of the students had spent a summer working on a relatives ranch out west and learned how to do taxidermy and work with fur. So he prepped the cat fur and made a stole. Tried to offer money to any girl that would wear it to prom.

Huh. I had a science teacher that threw dried goat's eyeballs at us if we weren't paying attention. If he ran out of eyeballs (he inexplicably had three), he would throw a damp sponge.

My shop teacher wore the same exact shirt every day. Sans washing. Ever.

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Talcott
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Twixlen wrote >>
Huh. I had a science teacher that threw dried goat's eyeballs at us if we weren't paying attention. If he ran out of eyeballs (he inexplicably had three), he would throw a damp sponge.
My shop teacher wore the same exact shirt every day. Sans washing. Ever.

The fact that he had an odd number of goat eyes is the part that gets me. Did he lose one at some point? Did he buy them out of a bulk bin of goat eyes? Did they come from the legendary Three-Eyed-Goat of the Himalayas?

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TomOver wrote >>
The animal is already dead, and I don't readily have a sense of how taking its newly killed body and using it for food or even for fur would be wrong.

I am not defining what is right or wrong. Would you want gloves made of your dead skin? Is it disrespectful to the animal to wear it?

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Twixlen
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Talcott wrote >>

Twixlen wrote >>
Huh. I had a science teacher that threw dried goat's eyeballs at us if we weren't paying attention. If he ran out of eyeballs (he inexplicably had three), he would throw a damp sponge.
My shop teacher wore the same exact shirt every day. Sans washing. Ever.

The fact that he had an odd number of goat eyes is the part that gets me. Did he lose one at some point? Did he buy them out of a bulk bin of goat eyes? Did they come from the legendary Three-Eyed-Goat of the Himalayas?

Exactly. And, frankly, at 12-13 years old, I was too concerned with not having one fly at me (he had a damn good aim) to ask. I always believed that he'd thrown one hard enough that it had exploded its dried-out goat-eyed goodness all over some poor student. I did not want that to be me.

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