If you just killed the animal it's not a disease problem. If you just scrounge for dead animals that have been there for days, that would be a problem.
Unless they're killed instantly, in which case you'd only salvage a little meat to begin with, the adrenaline they start kicking out while they're flipping and flopping sours the meat. For that reason, I won't, and nobody I know will butcher a road-kill deer.
I got a roadkill cookbook the other day. I got ahold of some roadkill, followed the recipe and it was delicious. I'm still not sure what to do with his bike, though.
Why would anyone need permission to eat a hunk of meat? If I wanna eat some road pizza, that's nobody else's goddamn business.
How are they going to stop them? Fact is, anything cooked properly will not be carrying disease, not that that necessarily means that it's attractive... I'm reminded of a disgusting joke I heard nearly 40 years ago about a roadkill hedgehog, but remembering that most Yanks here still have a meal to eat today, I won't repeat it.
My understanding is that sometimes it's more to do with the waste products of the wee beasties than with the beasties themselves, and that wouldn't be solved by cooking it.
OK, prepared and cooked properly. Still don't see how anyone's going to stop them. This is turning into one of those threads that makes me glad I'm veggie...
Hey, I wouldn't eat road kill if I was starving. Puking and shitting yourself to death is no way to go out. I just chafe at the idea of needing permission to eat anything not already claimed by someone else. If I wanna go outside and eat a fist full of gravel right now, it's nobody else's fucking business.
In NJ, there have been a couple cases where restuarant employees were caught with roadkill in their kitchen. Definitely illegal.
