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Is Eating Roadkill Vegan?
Is it acceptable for vegans to eat animals killed on the road?
It’s an old question — is eating roadkill vegan? You’re driving along a quiet country road and you spot a freshly-killed rabbit, pheasant or deer. As a vegan, is it acceptable to take the corpse home and cook up a rabbit stew or game pie?
After all, you’ve not killed the animal yourself and you’re surely not promoting the meat industry by paying someone else to kill for you, right?
You might even think it’s a waste to leave the body lying there by the side of the road when you could put all that prime protein to good use.
Imagine how happy all your non-vegan friends would be if you invited them round to dinner and served them real meat!
The problem is, all these rationales are simply lame excuses for doing something you know you shouldn’t do. Of course eating roadkill isn’t vegan!
On even the most basic level, a vegan diet contains no meat. It’s fundamental. The confusion, for some people, stems from the reasoning behind veganism, as they perceive it. People see veganism as a way to avoid causing suffering and, in a way, they’re not wrong. It’s just that this understanding is partial and incomplete.
