'Meals under wheels': More states make it legal to eat roadkill

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Critics warn about the risks of diseased meat and worry that over-eager drivers may intentionally strike down animals.

Dan Joling / AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.You found it on the side of the road and now, in more than two dozen states, you can eat it with a side of potatoes.

"At the end of the day, it just makes sense to put to positive use the animals that were just going to end up decaying and creating problems alongside the road," Oregon state Sen. Bill Hansell, whose bill legalizing the eating of roadkill went into effect earlier this year, told NBC News. Opponents, however, have warned of the risks of diseased meat and worry that legalization efforts could lead to over-eager drivers striking down animals just to get a free steak.

 

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Roadkill, it's whats for dinner. Thankful I've other options currently.

What's for dinner ma? *Boom* Rabbit darlin...grab that there shovel

It would be bizarre to think this a good way to get wildlife, but glad it won’t be wasted.

I can see problems here. Yahoos trying to kill with their cars.

Death Race 2019: Dibs on the vegan

Too late. Our dawg dun made a gud supper.

I don't know about other people, but I always did like the taste of meat when its seasoned with anti-freeze, motor oil, a sprinkle of gasoline....all that come with running animals down with a vehicle......🙄

Don’t eat the armadillo meat. Gives you the leprosy. 🤮

Humans survived by this for decades. Now we have to write a law in order to do it. Umm..freedom. Yay.

Won't be long until California legalised cannibalism via this ruling

Ok yeah let's just start an outbreak of gang green related illnesses... 🤔

Be forewarned: roadkill tends to be oily. 10W-40 oily.

Eew. Any time limits? Does it have to be your own kill, or is any roadkill fair game?

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