The number of deer I've seen by the side of the road is just not only sad, but disgusting that people go hungry when that is available food.

There's a lot of harvesting of road-kill animals that isn't documented, too. Deer routinely disappear from roadsides in MN very quickly. Lots of people here know how to butcher a deer.

bank if you care that much. But that would take money out of your pocket.

There would still be food going to waste.

...and in nature we are just another critter in the food chain. This is Montana, not New York City Should we feed New Yorkers dead rats?



Delmar: "Care for some gopher?"

Everett: "No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' her back down."

Delmar: "Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one. We ran across a whole gopher village."

Elk, deer and moose are hunted as food animals and some consider them excellent eating. Assuming the animal is freshly killed and safe for human consumption, then there is a choice to be made 1.) Feed it to hungry people; 2.) Let the scavengers eat it, or 3.) Throw the carcass in the garbage (where the scavengers will wind up with it anyway).

If you don't see a difference between feeding scavengers, insects and microbes, and feeding people, I'm speechless and where done here.

...just not road kill. The variables to viable healthy road kill are immense.

I simply responded to you saying it was a waste... it's not.

Do have a problem with donating it to food bank simply because of possibly that some arsehole will try to donate not so fresh kill. Also, it would put pressure on food banks to test the meat to ensure its fit for human consumption.

I would also expect the police or sheriff to have some involvement - hitting a deer frequently does substantial damage to the car and occupants are sometimes injured.

the same ones who process hunted deer. If it's not fresh, they won't process it. That's how it works in Minnesota, where there is also a program for hunters to donate deer for the same purpose. People are quite happy to get the meat, it seems, in this state. It's meat.

Rats caught in traps? Why throw good food away? We can feed it to the poor. Fuck em they are poor! Right?

And why would it be a sign of disregard? People hunt game animals because they desire the meat. How often do food banks get to hand-out the equivalent of steaks?

....but it just sounds somewhat insulting to me.

received. Nobody is forced to take it. It's available, but in much shorter supply than is in demand.

I was passenger in a car that hit a deer and the driver was offered the deer when he refused the deputy got it. I think a food bank would have been at least as worthy.

In Colorado, state patrol officers are empowered to locate someone willing to use the meat and write them a special "tag" allowing them to take it; the driver who hit the deer or elk is disqualified.

The reasons should be obvious: the last thing we need is people hunting deer with their vehicles.

repukes complain about waste when they are wasting their minds .