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Boyt keeps a large freezer in his garage, where he stores finds from various ‘roadkill hunts’. In it, you can find all sorts of rare animals and birds like hedgehogs, barn owls, snipes, sparrows, varieties of reptiles, badgers, cats, buzzards and more. “I have occasionally hit an animal myself, by accident,” he admits. “But I never aim to kill an animal. I do my utmost to avoid it. I come across it in my regular or irregular journeys.” Boyt says he doesn’t eat everything that he finds, but there are very few things in his country that he wouldn’t eat, not even bats. He even goes on to comment on cannibalism. “I don’t think it’s for me to make comments about other people being cannibals, but if I were in a situation where there was human flesh available and it might sustain me or others with me, I would have no compunction about eating it, all right?” He hasn’t done it so far though, and when his own cat died Boyt buried it. “I didn’t eat it. Um, if my wife found out, what would I say?”
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Mrs. Boyt is a vegetarian. Despite being married for about 10 years, she doesn’t exactly like this sort of thing. “When I first met Sue, I offered to drive her to an orienteering event,” says Mr. Boyt. “I remember jamming on my brakes for a dead pheasant and her expressing slight concern. When I eat roadkill, she tends to take her food upstairs so as to avoid a row.” Miraculously, Boyt says he’s never been ill from eating roadkill. He has been ill from eating food at a buffet, but his beloved roadkill has never let him down so far. “If it’s well cooked, I think there is very little chance of any bugs, bacteria surviving.”“I certainly think there’s a lot to be said against eating animals that have been killed on my behalf. For animals to be killed so that I can eat them and chuck away what I don’t fancy is a terrible thing. You see people in a restaurant leaving a lot of meat uneaten and that animal has died in vain, in a way, you can say.” Mr. Boyt wants everyone to benefit from the knowledge he has acquired over the years, so he intends to put a book together and is searching for a publisher. I’m not too sure I’ll be reading that book in a hurry, but I do wonder if Mr. Boyt has made any plans for his own body after he has passed, considering how much he hates waste. Source: VICE