Kamis, 17 Januari 2019

Abina Alberta: 'The truest free-range': why it's time to start eating roadkill

Abina Alberta
 
'The truest free-range': why it's time to start eating roadkill
Jan 17th 2019, 11:30, by Vanessa Angel

Alaskans have been enjoying free, organic meat for the past 50 years. Should other places stop turning their nose up?

My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains fanning across the pavement have not yet grayed in the brisk autumn air. The animal will not go to waste. For the past 50 years, Alaska has been the only state where virtually every piece of large roadkill is eaten.

Every year, between 600 and 800 moose are killed in Alaska by cars, leaving up to 250,000lb of organic, free-range meat on the road. State troopers who respond to these collisions keep a list of charities and families who have agreed to drive to the scene of an accident at any time, in any weather, to haul away and butcher the body.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2TV28JA

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