Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?

• DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is something that has always bothered me about roadkill animals (esp deer which are particularly prevalent as roadkill in my area).

  Its my understanding that the hide can remain in good and usable condition for days to weeks after the animal’s death. It seems that this could be a decent source of blankets and other light-medium cold weather gear.

  I’d imagine it largely comes down to the skinning process. The internal organs of dead animals are supposed to get real gross real fast (and that’s in the best case scenario - if anything ruptured when they were hit, then the grossness increasing exponentially) and removing those is the first step towards skinning. Additionally, everything in harvesting the hide would need to be done by hand.

  But boy, if we could build one of those Boston dynamics bots to do it…

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