I am a vegan but I have a dilemma?

Question

recently I was driving on a road that was in the woods and I came upon a roadkilled deer. I took that deer home and put it in cold storage. My original intention was to give it to a local soup kitchen or find someone to give it to. But now after some thought I am seriously thinking of cooking it for myself as I have not had any meat or anything that came from an animal for such a long time and I find myself kind of missing it. Would it be wrong to just set aside my vegan beliefs just this once since I had nothing at all to do with the death and suffering (if it did suffer) of this animal?

p.s

even if I were to eat it there is no way I would ever consider, for the rest of my life of ever, buying something that came from an animal or somehow contributing to the suffering of an animal.

Answer 1

That's disgusting!  You have no idea how long it was laying out there on the pavement.  Who knows what kind of c**p it's got in there.

Answer 2

u stuck a dead deer in the freezer....well, i'd say don't eat it since it might have some horrible disease and becomes the next SARS epidemic or something like that

Answer 3

Well personally I wouldn't. Firstly, if you haven't eaten meat in a while it can make you fell really sick. Secondly, it's disgusting (come on, its the rotting flesh of a dead deer). And thirdly, I proper burial would give the animal the respect it deserves (you wouldn't eat your dog or kid would you?)

Answer 4

Unless you know how to process it, bury it.  Seriously, if the internal organs were ruptured, the meat you'll get will be the foulest thing you have ever eaten.  It wasn't bled properly, and because it was struck by something there is also going to be a lot of tissue damage; lots of bruising and tearing and ripping where the bones are broken.  

Take it out into the wilderness for the crows and the ants - they won't thank you, but at least someone will be able to eat it.

Answer 5

You'd be doing no harm to any animal by eating that deer's body.

But that's pretty darn disgusting.

Are you sure you want to eat it?

Especially since you found it on the road?

Are you sure you'd be okay with cutting it up & eating it?

I personally couldn't bear to even watch someone cut up and eat an animals body, let alone do it myself.



It would probably be an awfully unhealthy experience ... physically and mentally.

Answer 6

You could be called as vegetarian NEITHER.

You intention is right-- by not letting the resource to be a WASTE. but...

1)If you're not starving, give them to someone really need it more than you (survival!)

2)If a vegan regarded the "meat as poison" to our body (in scientific context), then you should not even give them to your loved ones, nor stranger. Give them to the local zoo.

Vegetarianism, (obviously Veganism) never stops at EATING habit alone, but by phylosophy, intention and act PERSISTENTLY.

Answer 7

No offense here, but this sounds disgusting. I wouldnt think any kind of roadkill would even be sanitary for a dog to eat, let alone a human. Who knows how long it laid there or if flies & maggots got into it & what if it had internal bleeding or its organs ruptured. I wouldnt advise eating it & I highly doubt that a soup kitchen would even take it not knowing where it came from. You must be really craving some meat if you are willing to eat that!

Answer 8

You're not a Vegan!  A True Vegan would never consider eating meat!  Vegans are the ones totally against eating any animals or anything to do with animals.  Most Vegans won't even wear products made from animals hide or fur such as leather wool.   A true vegan wood give the animal a decent burial!   If you said vegetarian  than that's different but even that  You can't say your Vegetarian and eat meat one day and still call your self Vegetarian..  same goes for Vegans!  It's different if someone gave you meat without your knowledge! If you're really a Vegan  you shouldn't eat meat!

Answer 9

Do whatever your conscience allows you to do.

Answer 10

You did not kill it, it's dead...have a feast!

Answer 11

I find it odd that you would consider keeping, butchering and then consuming an animal that you found along the road...I think that most meat-eating people would find that to be a most unusual thing to do!    I do eat meat, but I would never want to be that involved with the animal and its processing as a food product!

Answer 12

a true vegan which i am not, on the contrary i love meat and all animal products yummy! but a true vegan wouldnt be haveing these thoughts take it to your local soup kitchen and get out of you home! Out Of Sight Out of mind!

Answer 13

I can see where you're coming from, but I would recommend NOT eating him, mainly for health and safety reasons.

1) It's unsanitary. All meat is unhealthy, but the meat of a deer that you found on the side of the road is VERY unhealthy and even DANGEROUS to eat.

2) Burying him would be far more respectful to his life. I know that I personally do not want to be eaten when I die.

3) Animals that have been killed in tragic accidents do NOT deserve to chopped up and EATEN nor do they deserve to have their heads mounted on the wall. They deserve to be given the same respect and dignity that one would give a human who'd been hit and killed by a car.

Do the right thing. Respect his life, and give him a proper burial ground.

Answer 14

it's only unsanitary if it was killed a long time ago. if it was just recently killed (like, 5 mins. before you picked it up) , it's fine. just don't eat any damaged parts (ex~open wounds).

being a vegan falls along the rules of your own beliefs. if you truly want to eat this meat, then eat it. you write your own rulebook of your life. maybe it's healthy for you (a little extra iron could possibly do you some good). but don't forget how much meat is actually on the deer. you might end up having too much and giving some away anyways. but make sure no bugs get on it at all (and cut off parts that had flies on it when you found it) because they would've laid eggs. if you're butchering it yourself, make sure you really look into how to do that...

Answer 15

the animal suffered to die

im sure it wasnt killed the instant it got hit

so yes it would be wrong

if your a true vegan you would know that

you cant say your vegan one day, eat meat and say your not for one day, then the next become vegan again

vegan is a lifestyle choice that if your true to, you wont concider eating meat ever again

and if you do, you wont do it, not even just that once, unless your giving up being vegan

Answer 16

Interesting question! I don't see anything wrong with eating it, since you didn't kill the animal and you wouldn't increase the demand for meat by eating roadkill. I'd personally give it away. (It would prevent more suffering if other people ate it instead of their usual meat.)

Of course, there are sanitary issues involved... but purely from an ethical perspective, there's nothing wrong with eating roadkill in my opinion.

Answer 17

Eeew.

Answer 18

i would not eat the deer. you've done so much good for your body eating no meat for ahwile, why give all that up? and besides the poor would really love it and could really use it more than a healthy vegetarian would. but up to you.