February 18, 2013 - 7:42 pm
A bill allowing individuals to salvage the meat from roadkilled game animals passed last week in Montana’s House of Representatives, the Daily Inter Lake reported.
The measure passed 19-2 last week in the House and is now on its way to the state Senate, according to the newspaper. State Rep. Steve Lavin, a proponent of the bill, said the legislation is better than it sounds.
“When people first hear about it — roadkill — some of them think this is a crazy bill, but it’s not,” Lavin told the newspaper.
“Honey, I’ll be a few minutes late. I’m picking up dinner. Do we have any Possum Helper in the pantry?”
Looks like Montana is behind Illinois on this one..
Why let an act of God go to waste?
Why should the State waste money sending overpaid government workers to dispose of valuable fur and (depending on the animal) nutritious low fat protein?
http://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/0212roadkillbills.aspx
“About 350,000 deer are killed by cars each year, and more than 250,000 other animals, including elk, squirrels, raccoons and foxes, are killed each day on America’s roads.”
Speed up Fred,that sucker is getting away…
Road kill on Americans tables. Burger King (Europe,is America next?), caught flat-footed serving up horsemeat in burgers…what next? OH! In Alaska, roadside slayed Elk (roadkill???)are skinned and served to its “needy” villagers.
Guess this is the face of America’s “Second Great Depression!”
You haven’t heard of our Roadkill Cafe? “You kill ‘em, we grill ‘em.”
Every day I drive to work in New Jersey I pass dead deer. It’s against the law for civilians to remove the deer. Most towns couldn’t be bothered and the state certainly doesn’t have the money, so it is left to vultures and other animals to dispose of the corpses everywhere.
– Obama has thrown under his bus?