I've had cravings, I'm on my third pregnancy and I've craved certain foods and drinks... but not roadkill. In the UK, the woman pictured above has been craving roadkill - she's eaten foxes, deer, pheasants, rabbits, and pigeons.
She used to make jewelery from the roadkill hides, but now... well, they are dinner. To her this is normal, she believes in an alternative food lifestyle. Me? I think it's gross. I'll stick to my cherry Icees and black olives.
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Would you eat roadkill?What were your weird cravings?
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@TheMuppetFairy@xanga - In 20 years of eating mostly wild game I've never ran across parasites.
@ToMarilyn@xanga - HAHAHHAHAHHAHA funniest thing i've heard all day.
I'm not so sure she's "craving" roadkill due to pregnancy so much as she's using this as a soapbox to promote alternative lifestyles. I see no problem with it as long as the baby is healthy, and there hasn't been any evidence beyond speculation given otherwise.
Really, though, I'm indifferent. Scavenging isn't a new or modern concept, but the #1 rule of reporting is that anything that can be sensationalized will.
@laughxlovextravel@xanga - There are though, ya know? I'm not trying to be mean or anything but I've heard people, (more than just one person, or one family) who wouldn't give their dogs deer meat that hadn't been frozen for an extended period of time to keep the animals free of parasites.
I would only be leery of doing this when pregnant, as in, just in case. I know if I was pregnant, and I ate some roadkill, my luck it'd probably kill my baby.
@TheMuppetFairy@xanga - I honestly don't think there much more of a chance of getting parasites from wild game, especially deer, than there is from meat at the store. For years we ate before freezing, nothing ever happened. This is coming from a family that has hunted for years and years and years & done our own butchering. Often if an animal does have parasites or worms you will SEE them or see evidence of them when butchering.
Makes my cravings for green beans sound silly! lol
@WaitingToShrug@xanga - I agree. There is nothing safe about eating road kill.
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The term "fresh roadkill" makes me laugh, at least when it is associated with people eating. Even if I hadn't been "sitting there for days getting picked at", the bacteria, that are a part of the animals normal flora, are starting to make it putrid. This is especially true hen it is sitting there in the sun. The bacteria are there happily doing there thing and the animal is decomposing. Like waitingtoshrug said, you don't want to eat anything where the contents of its guts have been allowed to contaminate the rest of the flesh. When this happens, you not only have to worry about rabies and other zoonotic diseases, you have to worry about E. coli, Salmonella, Shigella, and other bacteria associated with tainted meat. The process of decomposition and NOT knowing the disease state of the animal is what makes eating road kill disgusting.
Personally, I do not like wild game, but I know people that love it. However, those people either hunt or they get their game from a source that doesn't involve a phone call saying, "Hey, Jeb...I just hit a possum, come and get it 'fore the buzzards do."
Isn't that considered gourmet? Take her to a gourmet restaurant - that should curb the cravings instead of resorting to ...dead animals on the road.
that's pretty gross...
maybe should read "Pregnant woman craves media attention"
I would never eat roadkill. I'd be too worried about how fresh it is, what diseases it might have...etc.
I think it's kind of gross (I mean, I don't think I could do it) but, as long as she doesn't make herself or her baby sick eating that way, then I really don't see anything wrong with it. The animals have already been killed (and probably by someone being careless or by someone who really didn't care about hitting them at all) and she found a use for the bodies other than letting them rot on the side of the road. In a way, it's kind of like paying respect to the animal; consuming it after it was needlessly killed to sustain your own life and that of your child is much better than the animals having died in vain.
I'd draw the line at anyone eating a dog, though. To me, that's much too close to cannibalism for comfort. A fox is too close to a dog, so I'd nix them, too...maybe bury the remains in a flower garden or something instead...
I think that it's pretty irresponsible of her to do this because it could be potentially really quite unsanitary. I also worry that her selfishness will drive her to actually kill animals so she can have more to eat, which really weirds me out.
Meat is edible up to a substantial amount of time after the heart has stopped beating. It takes 12-14 hours for insects to get to the body, or thereabouts. I think as long as it's cooked good enough, it'd be alright. I personally wouldn't do it, but that's just me.
@flawedinsomniac@xanga - Considering she's talking about "how the animal lived and died"....
I don't think her KILLING animals with her newborn baby attached to her backside like a savage, is going to happen any time soon. Duh...
@Keeko1@xanga - gourmet = expensive. obviously not the thing she's going for.
@TakingxOverxMe@xanga - right? :( A lot of animals get tortured before death.. especially cows. There is a video streaming on the internet of cows being stabbed, knocked over, and tortured with forklifts, and farmhands laughing. What the hell!?
@bmillerssailor@xanga - @WaitingToShrug@xanga -@bbanmen420@xanga -
I lived in Alaska for a year, and guess what happened to all the Moose, deer, and Caribou that were hit and killed?
They were taken immediately to the local slaughter shops, butchered, and given to local food banks to be frozen, canned, or whatever. Not all things are obliterated when hit.@ohletitbe@xanga - I never said that, but in the article it didn't sound like it was fresh.. I dont know, definitley not something I would do...