can see a lot of jokes coming on this thread. On a serious note, Massachusetts allowed taking of road kill for deer and has gone a long ways to cleaning up the road. unfortunately did not include moose because one was hit they wouldn't let my buddy claim it.
So when in the military we would be on convoys in the far reaches of Australia, sometimes the convoy commander would make rules, like you hit it you eat it, snakes, kangaroos and emus made up most of the table fare but every now and again we would have something interesting.
It all depends on time. If it is a fresh kill, it really doesn't matter to me if it's a broadhead through the vitals, or a Buick. Whatever meat is not damaged due to impact or ruptured innards, is OK to eat. The idea of it being off limits simply because it's road kill is all in a person's head. My 2 cents, anyway
in Alaska in the winter the moose would get on the tracks and due to snow banks on either side the moose would run down the tracks until it came to a trestle and its legs would go through and it was stuck there until the train came along and took it out. it was required that the train stop and recover as much meat as they could and the meat was given to the old soldiers homes. I read in the paper at one of the town hall meetings an old man got up and was complaining bitterly about the practice and wanted it to stop. turns out he was a veteran and was tired of eating moose meat. but yea, I've no problem with it provided its a fresh kill and cold weather. certainly if I hit it I'd take it.
its unfortunate in the article the guy didn't use a picture of a nice freshly killed deer laying in the snowbank next to the road. The deer he showed I'd leave for the crows.
Let's see meat off the side of the road or angus from the grocery store? I know what I would rather eat.
Gonna agree with Sota. Never been so hard up for meat or low on cash needed to cruise around looking for road kill. Buzzards gotta eat too.
Never been that hard up for food. But if a big bruiser just destroyed my truck then I want the option of taking it home or not.
Where I live, Angus off the side of the road is also a possibility. This follows my line of thinking when it comes to road kill deer. I wouldn't touch a random find but one I got myself or a friend that calls immediately after the accident would get my consideration.
I don't think I'd ever eat road kill unless it were more of a survival situation. I hate to see an animal wasted but I've only hit one deer, fawn unfortunately, ever and everything is rotten by the time I drive by it.
