"HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Elk, deer, antelope and moose: If Montana residents can scrape it up, they can eat it.
State lawmakers are poised to say just that after the Senate gave its initial backing Wednesday to a bill that would allow people to salvage roadkill for food. The measure is now a final vote from heading to Gov. Steve Bullock.
It makes no sense to let the carcasses of big-game go to waste on Montana’s roadways, supporters said.
“It really is a sin to waste a good meat,” said state Sen. Larry Jent, D-Bozeman.
The measure calls for law-enforcement officers to issue permits to individuals who".................
IIRC, Colorado does that too. It used to be you had to have a game tag to claim a kill, but now they issue one of them. One of my hunting buddies was following his brother near Rabbit Ears Pass, totaled his rental SUV hitting an elk. When the police arrived to fill out the report, he asked if they could keep the animal and the patrolman gave him a permit to keep it. Luckily my friend always has his skinning knife and bonesaw in his car. Only took the non-bruised meat.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
It makes sense to use the meat but you have to wonder if it might encourage people to not brake for animals. "Nice looking cottontail Brandon, hit it and we can have hassenpeffer for dinner."
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Blazer Bob wrote: Wouldn't the bruised meat be pre-tenderized?
:droolpuddle: As long as bone chips, bile, intestinal fluids, and other nasty stuff doesn't bother you then I suppose you could be right. Truth be told I have a couple of buddies that feed small road killed animals to their dogs, I'm not saying they're wrong but the only thing the Wundermutt eats that I don't is what he catches on his own.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
My brother has been eating road-kill for years. As a matter of fact, usually where he lives he makes friends with the DOW guys and most of them if they get to fresh road-kill bring it to my brother or get my brother to go help get it. Less work for them that way.
When I was growing up, we cared for several golden eagles and a couple of hawks over the years. Roadkill is what they were fed. If we didn't have roadkill available a little crow hunting was in order, crows are pretty smart. Failing that ground beef mixed with cut up burlap was their diet.
The gator farm down south has the road kill contract for the county. When we were touring it one time years ago, a dog was fighting with a gator over half a calf. The dog actually won and ran off with the carcass.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Failing that ground beef mixed with cut up burlap was their diet. 
