Kill
it and grill it.
Montana
may now be the ultimate drive-through destination for adventurous foodies
thanks to a new law that allows residents to consume any animals they kill.
The
bill, which passed 19-2, allows deer, elk, moose and antelope that have been
killed by a car to be harvested for food.
State
Rep. Steve Lavin, who introduced the bill, initially included all animals, but Lavin eliminated sheep, bobcats and bears to
offset any financial incentive to intentionally hit them.
"We
have some animals whose parts are worth quite a bit: sheep, bobcats and
bears," Lavin told the New York Daily News. "So I reduced the bill
down to deer, elk, moose and antelope. The bill is confined to those four
animals for that purpose. Their parts aren't worth what sheep or bear parts are
worth."
Lavin,
who is also a state trooper, introduced the law because he thought people were
missing out on a potential food source.
"As
people know, people hit a lot of animals on roadways, and I mean a ton of
them," Lavin said, according to FoxNews.com. "There’s a lot of good meat being wasted out
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