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to wean my baby on roadkill?

45 replies

YellowCecil · 19/07/2011 19:53

My brother-in-law is not squeamish and so when he passed a dead roe deer by the side of the road he did the decent thing and took it home, butchered it and put it in the freezer.

Sunday lunch at their house and a haunch was served up, with some lovely veggies and tatters. We are baby-led-weaning and so DD had exactly what we had for lunch - broccoli, roasters, and roadkill venison.

AIBU, or is this ok?

OP posts:
saladsandwich · 19/07/2011 21:17

yanbu - my grandad use to check road kills all the time when i was a kid and take them home to eat.

DogsBestFriend · 19/07/2011 21:24

YC I can only explain like this: I haven't eaten meat in well over 30 years so have gradually come to viewing the eating of flesh as not just immoral but... well.... barbaric and uncivilised and very abhorrent. Envy

bee024 · 19/07/2011 21:51

YANBU.

BIL here so I have a vested interest but it was damn tasty wasn't it?

:)

fivegomadindorset · 19/07/2011 21:54

Booboostoo, you are about 20 years behind the times.

ihatecbeebies · 19/07/2011 21:55

Normally I'd say YABU as im not keen on feeding young children red meat and think you should have given dc something a bit healthier but venison is quite good for you, it is low in fat and cholesterol etc so no YANBU Smile

Mellowfruitfulness · 19/07/2011 22:03

Whose deer was it? 300 years ago you could have been transported to the colonies for an offence like that!

My grandfather was forever picking things up from the road and eating them. He has even been known to drive very fast at a pheasant (or two) ...

MrsBonkers · 19/07/2011 22:31

YABU
You have no way of knowing if there was anything wrong with the animal before it was hit by the car.
Maybe it had eaten some kind of poison and that why it didn't run out of the way in time!
But as you've done it now, Was it nice? What did you have with it?

Kladdkaka · 19/07/2011 22:44

Complexnumber I think you're right. They have to be hung up while in rigor. It's still edible, it just doesn't taste nice. Before and after rigor is fine.

Personally I prefer my meat out of pack because I'm pathetic and don't want to think about the critter it once used to be. But what a fab story to freak your daughter out with when she's older :o

thingamajig · 19/07/2011 22:59

Mellow fruitfulness, actually if you have found it dead it is fine, it is only killing and eating an animal that is poaching i.e. illegal. So Malinois could have justified taking the hare on the grounds that the driver who killed it would have been breaking the law, but she wasn't.

I'm with all those posters who are more confident in the health of a wild reared, accidentally killed animal than that of factory/intensively reared farm animals. They are riddled with diseases/parasites and the chemicals used to deal with them.

LemonDifficult · 19/07/2011 23:05

YANBU, of course.

You should gralloch a deer as soon as possible (after death) though before you hang it. But it sounds like your BiL knew what he was doing.

Yum.

pigletmania · 19/07/2011 23:06

I am going to Envy

hiddenhome · 19/07/2011 23:06

I brought home a roadkill pheasant once. dh told me that he knew how to prepare it Hmm

He got into a bit of difficulty and it wasn't pretty, so we just had to put it in the bin in the end. I wouldn't care, but I'd had to wrestle it off two magpies and I felt guilty for stealing their meal Sad

naturalbaby · 19/07/2011 23:14

wish i had a bil like that! i thought ds was adventurous having squid the other day.
driving at pheasants is tricky business. i find it's best not to aim, pretend you are going to avoid them and they'll position themselves perfectly.

Kewcumber · 19/07/2011 23:27

my ex did a year long deer farming course with a view to setting himself up in a lovely little deer farm in teh middle of France Hmm and did various placements.

I used to love venisn but I swear if anyone evens wafted a plate of it near me I'd punch them. There is only so much venison a normal person should have to eat in one lifetime.

Mellowfruitfulness · 20/07/2011 16:28

Grin at Naturalbaby. Why do pheasants try to walk under car wheels? Do you think they have a death wish, or are they just really intellectually challenged?

Dakiara · 20/07/2011 16:38

Grr, now I'm craving venison! Envy

naturalbaby · 20/07/2011 16:45

daft as brushes, the lot of them. especially the males.
and as for pigeons! we have several comic pigeon shaped splats on the windows at the back of our house, one even dared to dent my bonnet one day in an explosion of feathers.

elisadoeslittle · 20/07/2011 16:51

Is there not a theory that HIV was transmitted from apes by eating the bush meat of an animal with SIV. Any trace of blood left over could have entered the blood stream through bleeding gums or ulcers etc.

Of course Deer dont have SIV or HIV or CIV (Cervidae family I think) but diseases can be transmitted.

TeacupTempest · 20/07/2011 18:42

YANBU

I only eat wild shot meat or road-kill (although the road-kill bit is only in theory so far as I have yet to find any worth eating. Once found a pheasant but the car behind me nabbed it first!!)

issynoko · 20/07/2011 18:50

So long as it's not scraped off your tyres and you cook it well. Yum yum. Mine's a stoat sarnie.

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