https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... l-for-food
A new law took effect in Oregon on Tuesday allowing meat from animals killed by vehicles to be harvested and eaten.
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that lawmakers in the state first approved the measure, Senate Bill 372, allowing deer and elk struck by vehicles to be legally salvaged for food in 2017.
Under the legislation, state residents are required to submit an application for a permit no more than 24 hours after salvaging the elk or deer.
According to The Statesman Journal, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be providing free "roadkill salvage permits" to drivers who wish to harvest the road kill.
Regulations for the permits require drivers to submit animal heads and antlers to the department within five business days.
It is still illegal to intentionally kill an animal to salvage it in the state, however.
Oregon joins nearly 20 other states in allowing residents to harvest meat from roadkill.
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ah, roadkill
Back when I was an engineer and technicians ran the experimental units, I was told about "Charlie" on the other crew who used to always trade lunches with people. He always seemed to have breaded and deep fried meat in his lunchbox and pestered for bologna and other lunch meat sandwiches.
Well one fine summer when his car was in the shop and his wife couldn't drive him, another technician drove him home, Two facts emerged in that drive (a) when he spotted a dead groundhog run over by someone else, he demanded the driver stop and he loaded the dead groundhog in the trunk. Apparently, all that "breaded and deep fried" meat was road kill.
(b) and of interest to our story, there were there three dozen chickens in his yard when the coworker got there. It seems that to save money for his daughter's weeding he was raising the chicken. He did slaughter the birds and deliver them to the caterer in time for the wedding. Even now, chicken is like $1.99 a pound and that event was 30 years ago. The only word that comes to mind is cheap, cheap, cheap...
BTW - Pennsylvania allows game wardens to harvest deer involved in car crashes for charities, BTW.
Back when I was an engineer and technicians ran the experimental units, I was told about "Charlie" on the other crew who used to always trade lunches with people. He always seemed to have breaded and deep fried meat in his lunchbox and pestered for bologna and other lunch meat sandwiches.
Well one fine summer when his car was in the shop and his wife couldn't drive him, another technician drove him home, Two facts emerged in that drive (a) when he spotted a dead groundhog run over by someone else, he demanded the driver stop and he loaded the dead groundhog in the trunk. Apparently, all that "breaded and deep fried" meat was road kill.
(b) and of interest to our story, there were there three dozen chickens in his yard when the coworker got there. It seems that to save money for his daughter's weeding he was raising the chicken. He did slaughter the birds and deliver them to the caterer in time for the wedding. Even now, chicken is like $1.99 a pound and that event was 30 years ago. The only word that comes to mind is cheap, cheap, cheap...
BTW - Pennsylvania allows game wardens to harvest deer involved in car crashes for charities, BTW.