California has legalized the claiming, cooking, and eating of roadkill, including deer, elk, pronghorn antelopes, and wild pigs. California is now one of 20 states with this kind of law.
Sponsored by Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), Senate Bill 395 enables the state’s Fish and Game Commission to develop a pilot program that would issue permits to people for taking home an animal they struck killed on the road to eat once they have filled out information on an online portal within 24 hours. According to the law, that information would include “the location, type, and description of the animal salvaged, the date and time of salvage, the basic characteristics of the incident and a description of the vehicle involved … and the destination where the carcass will be transported.”
