Is it legal? Should we eat road kill is one question, but should it be legal is another. In Brendan Buhler’s essay “On Eating RoadKill,” Buhler brings up many points as to why we should eat road kill. However, among those points he added different state laws on the regulation of road kill, in an attempt to make us think about our state laws. In Brendan Buhler’s essay “On Eating Roadkill” along with his opinion he included different state laws which regulate and restrict the treatment of road kill. “[In] Massachusetts, you must obtain a permit after the fact and submit your road kill to inspection by the state. In Illinois, the chain of title is somewhat complicated and no one delinquent in child support may claim a dead deer. Alaska practices
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The thought of eating road kill never really came to my mind, however upon further thought; I am not against the idea. I love the idea of a more natural food source. One that is not full of hormones, preservatives, and other additives. While there is nothing natural about the manner in which the animal died, I believe it is still better to use the meat than to let the animal be disgraced by allowing its body to rot on the side of the road. I do not believe that I will be stopping on the highway every time I see a dead deer, but if I were to hit a deer I may very well bring it home, or at least to a one of my friends who hunt. Buhler’s essay caused me to draw the conclusion that not using road kill is wasteful and immoral. I believe more people would use road kill if they had the knowledge of how meat is dressed and in general what to do with it. Because we live in a culture that has nothing to do with the harvesting and processing of meat, road kill looks unappetizing and disgusting to us since one would actually have to proses it their self. I personally would be more interested and into using road kill meat if I knew what to do with
The thought of eating road kill never really came to my mind, however upon further thought; I am not against the idea. I love the idea of a more natural food source. One that is not full of hormones, preservatives, and other additives. While there is nothing natural about the manner in which the animal died, I believe it is still better to use the meat than to let the animal be disgraced by allowing its body to rot on the side of the road. I do not believe that I will be stopping on the highway every time I see a dead deer, but if I were to hit a deer I may very well bring it home, or at least to a one of my friends who hunt. Buhler’s essay caused me to draw the conclusion that not using road kill is wasteful and immoral. I believe more people would use road kill if they had the knowledge of how meat is dressed and in general what to do with it. Because we live in a culture that has nothing to do with the harvesting and processing of meat, road kill looks unappetizing and disgusting to us since one would actually have to proses it their self. I personally would be more interested and into using road kill meat if I knew what to do with