Get the elk marinade ready and leave your judgments at the car door, everybody. The state of Montana is not a fan of waste, and is set to allow its residents to salvage roadkill for food. If citizens can scrape it, they can eat it. And we’re not talking your usual squirrels and possums, big-game like elk, deer, antelope and moose could all be a part of the roadkill menu.
State lawmakers are this close to giving the go-ahead to residents after the Senate bestowed its initial approval on a bill covering roadkill as food. Now it’s up for a final vote and then on to Gov. Steve Bullock, reports the Associated Press.
Supporters of the bill are of the same mind as my grandma: Waste not, want not. Why let that meat sit there on the road when it could be cooked up and enjoyed?
“It really is a sin to waste a good meat,” said state Sen. Larry Jent. Read on…..