Ease Up on Regulatory Roadkill Resistance: New at Reason

This Labor Day weekend, as millions of Americans mourn the end of summer, many of us will fire up our grills to sear various hunks of animal flesh for one last seasonal family gathering. (The upside, besides the meat, is that with any luck we won’t have to see most of these people again until Thanksgiving.)

Much of the meat we’ll grill this weekend will be store-bought. Some of it will be purchased at the farm. Some will have been fished or hunted. And some—an almost imperceptible amount—will be harvested from the animal carcasses that dot America’s roadways.

Yes, Baylen Linnekin talking about roadkill, and how states (often needlessly) regulate who may take and consume it.

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