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Not only is it still good, it's basically vegan. In fact, leaving roadkill on the road side often results in more animal death as scavengers come to the scene.
What if you pulled it out off the edge so they could feast more safely? Although I suppose if the road is downwind they'd have to cross it as they come.
I think "basically vegan" is quite a stretch. You couldn't be sure it didn't live immobile and in pain for awhile, nor that it wasn't hit on purpose.
Not vegan myself. My main reason for not eating roadkill is that I'm not good enough at judging how long it's been lying there, nor whether it had some crazy disease, even if the vehicle is what killed it.
I'm not sure what anyone could call the "official" definition of being vegan, but I think a reasonable definition is that a vegan is someone who tries to live such that they cause the minimum amount of suffering to animals possible.
Buying meat is obviously bad because it creates a market for meat, but finding meat does not create a market for meat, and therefore wouldn't increase animal suffering. It doesn't matter if someone hit it on purpose or if the animal suffered while it died, your actions haven't caused that. Utilizing scavenged meat does not cause suffering to more animals (and in fact, it likely reduces it).
I would even argue that if you find a mortally wounded animal, it's kinder to put it out of its misery than to leave it be, but that's literally the trolley problem, and it's up for debate.
This is all somewhat moot, though, cause I'd wager that 99.9% of all vegans are also just dietarily vegetarian in that they don't want to consume meat even if it was ethically sound.
Hmmm...Shoplifting meat doesn't create a market, in fact it discourages the market from carrying meat because they lose money on it....
Vegan just means nothing from animals - no meat obviously, no cheese, milk, eggs, etc
The reasoning behind it is different for each person
Some just don't like meat for instance or can't stomach diary products.