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Would you eat meat that was roadkill, but was freshly harvested, examined and butchered, then sold cheap?

Using a gun is one way to pack a freezer full of wild game. But there is another way too, one that even a vegetarian might appreciate—at least for the economy of it. It follows the maxim: waste not want not. It’s roadkill. Each game warden has a list of people to call when there is an accident that involves game. Once comprised of only butchers, today the list is open to anyone willing to receive a call, often in the wee hours of the morning, that will require them to scramble out of pajamas and into boots and coat and into the night to pick up the game. Butcher Bill Lake, in Rutland, Vermont, has seen 30 deer, three moose, and even two bear in the past year alone, each passed along to a customer from a game warden. Lake’s main business involves processing purchased beef and poultry and he also takes care of wild animals, from hunters and from customers on the roadkill distribution list.

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