Revolutionary Roadkill

Leave it to the counterculture to glamorize scavenging.

I've just finished a most engrossing book, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements. It was a lot of fun, reading about unpasteurized cheese, organic farming, and the slow food movement.

Then the chapter on "Feral Foraging". Author Sandor Ellix Katz profiles some former vegans who've taken to eating roadkill--not as an act of desperation, but as counterculture. One he quotes as redefining roadkill:

"Transforming dishonored victims of the petroleum age into food which nourishes, and clothing which warms."

Victims of the petroleum age! And you thought you were a progressive. These guys are way ahead. If they don't die first.

Photo Credit: marta rattlesnacks, from Flickr