The new president of the RSPB is urging the public to follow her example - by eating roadkill.
BBC broadcaster Miranda Krestovnikoff was unveiled as the new face of the RSPB this weekend, reports the Daily Telegraph.
She wants more people to source their meat from the roadsie instead of their local supermarket or butcher.
She recently hosted a dinner party featuring fried rat with garlic and soy sauce, fox sautéd in garlic and badger chasseur with tomato sauce and croutons.
"It would be good to encourage it more widely," she said. "I don't see why not. People have a problem with it because the meat has not come from a cellophane wrapper.
"But if the meat is fresh, there's no risk of catching anything. It's lean, healthy, organic, free, guilt-free and as fresh as fresh can be..
"It is a chance to get connected to what you eat. We're obsessed by sell-by dates and things like that. But roadkill can be eaten very hygienically. People are too squeamish."
Ms Krestovnikoff began eating roadkill after spotting a dead pheasant on the roadside near the home on the outskirts of Bristol where she lives with her husband, Nicholas.
The pair butcher the meat themselves. Offcuts are made into sausages and remains are left outside, to be scavenged by wild animals and birds.
