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Roadkill to Become Fair Game in Virginia (www.loweringthebar.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Here's the meat of the article

If HB 1025 passes, it would expand the list of claimable dead animals to include turkeys and elk, and would expand the list of claimants to include not just the driver but anyone who might come along and discover the corpse. Specifically, any person “who discovers a deer, bear, turkey or elk that has been killed in a collision with a motor vehicle” could make the claim...

I see no problem with this. Why waste food?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably people picking up meat that has spoiled/not knowing what to do with it, and getting sick. @BirdEnjoyer said a friend of theirs has to unironically tell people not to pick up anything they didn’t hit themselves.

I agree with the sentiment though, good food shouldn’t go to waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I'd rather not get CWD from a deer I found dead on the road

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