(I wonder if Ron White’s tour bus was in Kentucky recently.)

I am speaking specifically of moose when the somewhat frequent vehicle/moose accident occurs.

This is a lot of meat to waste.

Troopers are usually on the scene fairly quickly as this is not a small accident.
Moose weight approx 1200 or more pounds and vehicles are often very damaged.

It is not like the driver leaves and the moose is left for a long time where the meat would go bad.

Somestimes the moose unfortunately is not killed outright and the Trooper ( or car owner if they have a weapon) will put the animal out of it’s misery.

This is a fresh kill, only done with a vehicle instead of a weapon, and likely some of the meat in the injured areas is not useable.

The rest is good meat, clean, healthy and there is absolute no need to waste it.

Now if this dear had been lying on the road in the sun for a while and the meat was spoiled that would be a different matter. No info given in story for how long the animal had been exposed to the elements. That could alter the situation significantly.

Still, not right to use the meat in their restaurant —customers should not be fed food that may not have been sanitary—–but i would have no problem if they took it home and used it themselves IF it was a fresh kill.

I imagine people in Maine and other rural U.S. states do this as well.