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Did you see this on BBC3 tonight?  (I need to get out more I think...watching to much TV!)  Anyhow, very interesting.  Not only does Fergus gather freshly killed critters from the roadside to eat, but he also forages for lots of lovely woodland things, not unlike a lot of us!  He lives in Kent and hosted a wild food banquet where he served roadkill pheasant and rabbit and a host of locally foraged fruit and veg.  Some people were very keen and interested, some I felt were only on there to appear on TV.  All in all though, I really enjoyed it.  Just wish I knew where to forage some puffball mushrooms as I have never even seen one let alone stumbled across one in the bracken!

road kill  :-X :-X :P

I saw it, not sure about eating badgers and foxes ?? to near the top of the food chain... but i'd eat anything else (and do quite often). We get lots of munkjacks round here too, they are really nice.

Although i reckon he bought most of the pheasants and rabbits at the end, the day before he had nothing - then the next day he had enough to feed what looked like 20 people ???

There's usually a dead badger between keef's house and mine, but can't say I've ever been tempted ...

It was a bit lame that he had to pass the meat inspector, too, still, that's the BBC for you.

Bit previous with the sloe gin too, weren't they?  Couldn't wait?  That was never the stuff they'd just made!

Oh, and what was that about it being illegal to charge for meals of roadkill ... ah, I suppose the pubs round our way are just charging for the veggies then, and the venison's free?  That must be it.  :-X

Friends of mine in the country used to serve road kill boldly, when they said 'it's chateau Michelin tonight' you knew it was going to be rabbit, pheasant or deer ;D

i dont know if this is true but on another forum i visit i read that you should leave any deer you find that appears to be road kill as quite often it will not have been killed outright and may have been dispatched by a vet or the rspca in which case it will contain something nasty.  dunno if that is true though.

Funny you should mention that Sarah....

We were invited to dinner by another couple, and served venison stew which was nice though could have been warmer. Over dinner the wife regaled us with the story of the venison - a deer she had come across on the road (fine). It was the fact that she had hauled it onto the leather back seat of her new BMW and driven it to the vet (it was dead) that had us in hysterics!

CLx

If the vet had attended and dispatched the animal to animal heaven, there's no way he/she is going to leave it unattended. It would be taken away ASAP and someone would stay with the animal until that happened.
My concern would be that any road kill animal might have some sort of infection, like rabbits and mixi (can't spell mixamatoesis). That's a disease you can't spot when it's in the pot!

You can spot mixi easily by checking a bunny's eyes.

With pheasants it's usually their heads that get hit by a bumper so the rest of the bird is in good nick -  a quick sniff should suffice as a check. Very healthy food - low fat, free range, usually fed on wheat - what more could you ask for - plastic wrapping? ;D

Humans can't get myxy so don't worry about it. The eyes and face will be obviously swollen if that's the cause of death.

Quote from: Barnowl on January 17, 2007, 13:28:53
You can spot mixi easily by checking a bunny's eyes.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on January 17, 2007, 15:12:00
Humans can't get myxy so don't worry about it. The eyes and face will be obviously swollen if that's the cause of death.

Yes, I know. It's just an example. (I used to shoot 'em for dog food.) The disease isn't noticable in it's early stages unless you check the lungs for mottling, and if someone else prepares a road kill for food we don't know what it's infected or afflicated with.

You should'nt eat myxy rabbits not becuase of the myxy's it self, but because of the general poor health of the rabbit - and the chance's of it having picked up somthing else..

My mate (who trained as a vet, and his dad is a vet) has some "interesting" methods for dispatching things that survived the bumper...

when you gut a mixed up bunny there's not normally any poop in the poop tube so you know not to eat it
if it has lumps or bumps on the head don't even touch it!!!

On appearance it sounds disgusting and off putting but thinking about some of the ingredients in cheapo sausages and burgers its probably a healthier option

We watched this prog too, and it was quite interesting.  As a non- meat eater I found the whole idea a bit stomach churning  :-X but I could underst and his point, and the foraging he did on the beach & for the mushrooms looked like fun!  Even when I did eat meat I don't think I could have brought myself to eat that but then, as you say okra, goodness knows what goes into cheapo burgers & sausages, and don't even get me started on kebabs and 'mcburgers' etc!

I once worked in a meat pie factory. I say once on account of I didn't go back the second day!

I'm sure if people were given tours of meat pie factories and meat processing plants the percentage of veggies in the population would increase

The last time I worked in a hotel (you'll understand why I never went back to it) they kept meat till it stank, then made pate with it. They kept that till it stank, then made stuffing out of it. They kept that till it stank, then tried to give it to the staff. They boled up an enormous cauldron of eggs every three months or so, and used them to make egg salad; you should have smelt the place when they were using up the last of a batch. It was a four-star hotel, and we never saw a health inspector all season.

Stories like yours Robert are enough to put me off ever eating out again - better to grow it and then cook it ourselves

And spend a lot of time driving round country estates ;D