Eating Roadkill Is Our Future, and That’s Okay

‘Why let it waste if it is still good?’

Yasmin Tayag
OneZero
Published in
5 min readOct 28, 2019

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A photo of a dead deer on the side of the road.
A dead deer lays on the side of the road on October 16, 2019 in Nicasio, California. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EEarlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into effect the Wildlife Traffic Safety Act, also known as the “roadkill bill.” The act will soon make it legal for drivers to take home and eat animals they accidentally kill or find dead on the road, provided they register that there’s been a collision on an…

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Yasmin Tayag
OneZero

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.