Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free (and now, it's DELICIOUS!)
                   

              How broke would you have to get to eat roadkill? You know, 'street pizza'.

              Don't freak out. This isn't a sensationalist necrophiliac bizarre fetish-ized kind of thing.
              It's legit. Actually, depending on several factors, it can be perfectly safe (and entirely
              affordable) to eat meat that has been left by the side of a highway or county road. Or
              for Fido and Squeaky to eat it, once it's cooked properly. And after a few months without
               a job or salary, your love for your pets may get the best of you.

              In fact, there may be not much of a difference from a deer you hunt, and a deer you
              kill accidentally.  Or one the last car that passed killed.

              Now, this may sound a bit extreme to you. But according to Sandor Katz, lifelong activist
              and food lover, roadkill has been a source of food for poor people since cars were invented.
              And getting more and more LEGAL every day.

 https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-07-oregon-just-legalized-the-harvesting-of-roadkill-for-food.html

              So, don't be MEAT SNOB.  At least read more about BAD KARMA FOR the CRITTER, but
              GOOD KARMA FOR GUY WHO CLEANS IT OFF THE ROAD!

              The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside
              America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Katz. Google it.

              If you pay attention and look at the road while driving (or, even more so, while walking or
              biking), you will inevitably encounter roadkill. Animals moving across the landscape are
              often unavoidable prey at fifty-five miles per hour. Little systematic counting has been
              done, but extrapolating from data collected by road crews in Ohio, one analysis estimates
              there are an average of more than one hundred million roadkill victims in the United States
              each year. Dr. Splatt, the pseudonym of a high-school science teacher who for thirteen
              years has organized students around New England to participate in a roadkill census,
              comes up with a very similar estimate of 250,000 animals killed by cars in the United
              States on an average day. Some people see food in these unfortunate victims of our car
              culture and regularly pick roadkill up off the road to take home and eat.

              A few passionate souls I have encountered eat roadkill almost every day. My neighbors
              Casper and Pixey bring roadkill stews to our potlucks. For a while they did their frying in
              grease rendered from a roadkill bear they came across in the mountains. On one of my
              friends Terra and Natalie's visits, they had strips of roadkill venisons splayed across their
              dashboard drying into jerky.

              When I first met Terra, she was vegan. Then she and her boyfriend Ursus -- who has the
              word vegan tattooed onto his shin -- discovered roadkill and quickly became roadkill
              carnivores. In her zine, The Feral Forager, Terra explains how they came to start eating
              roadkill:

                   Our first feral feast of roadkill was on spring equinox of 2002. That past
                   winter we had experimented with skinning and tanning, using a possum and a
                   raccoon we had found on the roadside. . . . On spring equinox we were
                   driving in the suburbs of a large southeastern city and spotted a fox dead on
                   the roadside. Our first thought was what a great fur it would make. We
                   scraped it up (it wasn't very mangled at all) and took it to our friends' house
                   downtown, and Ursus skinned it in the backyard while our friends assisted.
                   When it was all done and hanging gutless and skinless from a tree, it was like
                   some collective epiphany: why not eat it? There was a great firepit there and
                   several willing "freegans," along with a few pretty hardcore vegans (including
                   Ursus) who raised no protest. After a couple hours on a spit, the grey fox
                   was edible. I guess it was something about the start of a new season -- it was
                   almost ritualistic, without trying to make it so. Some stood by and watched
                   while four or five of us feasted on the fox. Ursus, a hardcore vegan, was
                   perhaps the most voracious. There was something primal about his eating --
                   like a wild man caged for years eating only bagels and bananas. Ursus tanned
                   the skin and later wore it around his neck like a scarf.

              Terra, Ursus, Natalie, and other members of the Wildroots Collective in western North
              Carolina now eat roadkill nearly every day, have a good supply put away in a freezer, and
              have tried dozens of different species of animals found dead on roadsides.

              The Wildroots folks have become enthusiastic promoters of roadkill and work hard to
              spread information and skills to empower other people to tap into this huge available food
              supply. Members of the collective do a good bit of traveling on the do-it-yourself
              skillsharing circuit, teaching people how to judge the edibility of a dead animal on the road
              and guiding them through the experience of skinning and cleaning a small animal. At the
              2005 Food For Life gathering at the Sequatchie Valley Institute/Moonshadow, one of the
              most memorable events was the hands-on roadkill workshop, in which we learned about
              the cleaning, skinning, and butchering of roadkill animals. The Wildroots folks brought a
              roadkill groundhog with them, and our friend Justin, another roadkill enthusiast, brought a
              squirrel he had found on his bike ride to the gathering. (The more slowly you travel, the
              more you notice not only roadkill but all sorts of roadside harvesting possibilities.)

              People enthusiastically took front-row seats to see these animals get skinned. Some
              people shuddered in horror, had to look away, or otherwise expressed their
              squeamishness. But most people watched quietly, fascinated, as Natalie coached Dylan, a
              previously uninitiated thirteen-year- old (there with his family) through the skinning of the
              squirrel, and Jenny and Justin skinned the groundhog. Direct experiential education like this
              can be transformative. Laurel Luddite wrote about her first roadkill butchering experience,
              "The responsibility made me nervous at first. As I cut I began to feel confident that not only
              could I butcher this deer, but I could also fulfill my need for food whenever I saw some
              lying by the side of the road."

              Roadkill has been a source of food for poor people since there have been cars. In
              American culture eating roadkill generally has a pejorative classist connotation, epitomizing
              ignorant hillbilly behavior. Now Wildroots and other enthusiasts are embracing roadkill
              with a political ideology, rejecting the values of consumer culture by "transforming
              dishonored victims of the petroleum age into food which nourishes, and clothing which
              warms." Beyond ideology, they are spreading practical information and skills to empower
              people.

              Terra's zine, The Feral Forager, offers a basic primer for safely eating roadkill:

                   Picking up roadkill is a good way to get fresh, wild, totally free-range and
                   organic meat for absolutely free. When you find the roadkill you should try to
                   determine if it is edible or not. If you saw the animal get hit then it's obviously
                   fit to eat (although you may have to put it out of its misery). If the critter is
                   flattened into a pancake in the middle of the highway then it's probably best
                   to leave it. Most of the time (not always), good ones will be sitting off the
                   road or in a median where [they aren't] constantly being pulverized.

                   Sometimes it can be hard to determine how fresh a carcass is. A lot of
                   factors can contribute to how fast the meat spoils, especially temperature.
                   Obviously, roadkill will stay fresher longer in colder weather and spoil faster
                   in warmer weather. It's best to go case by case and follow your instincts.
                   Here are some considerations to help you decide:

                        If it is covered in flies or maggots or other insects it's probably no
                        good.

                        If it smells like rotting flesh it's probably spoiled, although it is common
                        for dead animals' bowels to release excrement or gas upon impact or
                        when you move the carcass.

                        If its eyes are clouded over white it's probably not too fresh (though
                        likely still edible).

                        If there are fleas on the animal there's a good chance it's still edible.

                        If it's completely mangled, it's probably not worth the effort.

                   Rigor mortis (when the animal stiffens) sets in pretty quickly. Most of the
                   animals we've eaten have been stiff. There's no reason to assume the animal
                   is spoiled just because it's stiff. . . .

                   Potential Risks of Eating Roadkill: One of the most severe risks of
                   roadkill is rabies. In order to assure your safety from this deadly serious
                   brain inflammation, you may want to use rubber gloves when gutting and
                   skinning any warm-blooded animal (warm blooded as in mammals and birds,
                   not in regard to blood temperature). If you don't feel the need to exercise this
                   absolute caution, at least make sure you don't have any open wounds on
                   your hands or skin that touches the animal. Roadkill is usually safe from
                   rabies because it dies quickly when the animal dies. Also, rabies will cook
                   out of the carcass. Generally speaking, boiling the animal first (rather than just
                   grilling it) is a good idea, especially if it's a notorious rabies carrier (like
                   raccoons, skunks, and foxes).

              Sandor Ellix Katz is the author of the newly published The Revolution Will Not Be
              Microwaved and Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of
              Live-Culture Foods (Chelsea Green, 2003). He travels widely teaching people about
              food preservation and alternatives ways to get nourishing food. A native of New
              York City, he lives --where else? in Tennessee.

       ROAD KILL COOKING TIPS.

#1.) To feast on free meat, YOU NEED THE NERVE to park at curb, wait til
no one's looking, then safely pull the corpse into the car. If they see you, just
start weeping, "OH DEAR! MY DARLING FLUFFY!!" USE a paper
or plastic bag over your hand. Set on newspapers. If the corpse was a
meat eater, Cats, dogs --- don't pick it up to KEEP just leave by curb. Only eat birds and animals with
hooves. Recently I picked up a wounded Possum, gave it water, fruit
but it died. I was too cowardly to peel it for cats so gave it a Christian burial (bag in barrel)
Well, we're only a few months into the GREAT DEPRESSION, cats not hungry enuf. YET!

2.) RITUAL CLEANSING. Drop corpse into sink of water. SEE WHAT CRAWLS
OFF. A lotta stuff WILL but don't let that get you. It's wild life.
Nothing more or less. Humans have eaten wild life for millennia. Use strainer,
pick the moving bugs off, dump  in yard. I do not knowingly kill any wild life.
Then brine the meat for a few hours.

3.) HOW TO PEEL. We who do not regularly slaughter animals call removing
the skin 'peeling' as the only thing we've ever peeled is a carrot.. SHARP
SHORT PARING KNIFE. INSERT A new kind of "ZIPPER" down its front --from
google to zatch. Remove meat from peel. Whether it's a pigeon or a
deer, peel it. Skin it. Whatever. Hey, my cat can do it. I found a squirrel rug
under my dining table last Friday.

4.) BURY the "peels" deep in COMPOST PILE as your family would look very
unkindly at animal corpses especially with faces...being brought home
and cooked in pots they use for oats in the morning! No kid wants 'remains' lying around the yard
or looking up at them from the bottom of trash cans. This I know. I learned to
adore 'berdolagas' in Mexico where maids cooked it saying that it was a great Spring
delicacy, and instantly recognized purslane when I came back to USA with 4 babes and saw it growing
on the curb outside our rented shack. My kids would say 'mom, dogs pee there.'
They'd then ask,  "are we that  poor?'  their bewildered faces turned up to me in horror.
I tried to be a good mommie and not give them complexes. Instead, I took purslane seed
at summer's end and planted it in our back yard garden. But the confounded stuff
would only grow on sidewalk cracks and curbs so I learned to pick purslane
by flashlight while kids were watching TV.

5.) 99% of road kill is only useful for pets. You should get so lucky
you'd find a deer before the blood clotted. If blood is clotted, next
stage is larvae. FLY LARVAE means two days old, don't eat it.
HANGING meat in a cold room for 2 weeks is fine tho. Suggested
method for cooking meats for pets is adding onion, bay leaf, carrots and at end, greens to the
soup. Carrots require 10 minutes, tough game meat ...one hour at  a slow simmer.
A fast boil toughens meat. Lower the heat the better. Greens go in last 5 minutes.

6.) Slow cooked meat is pulled off the bone when cool, carrots smashed
or grated into it. Pets will eat vegetables with their meat. Unlike kids.

7.) There's a pound of snails a night in the average garden. Flashlight,
bag. Simmer in salted water, 4 min. Turn off, cool. Pull out of shells.
Manicure instrument helps. Saute in chicken fat l0 seconds, garlic
powder. Your friends will let you in their yard when you're out.
If we go into utter economic arrest, June Bug larvae abound in rich
soil beds, and fried 30 seconds in oil or butter, cats will eat them.
Caw four times, a signal in crow language, they will feast, ditto mockingbirds
savvy enough to learn YOUR WHISTLE equals STEAK DINNER!

ADORED by Amazonian Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese and
certain New Guinea tribes, *but they also eat HUMANS.

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