Senate bill 365 would allow people who accidentally hit and kill wild animals on California roads to recover the edible portions.
"You're gonna get a lot of loss. There's not much you're going to get out of the animal after its been hit like that," California butcher Ian Higgs said.
Higgs is a custom butcher at Roseville meats, which is a craft he has refined for over a decade.
"It's definitely an art," Higgs said.
He says you can't harvest much edible meat from a roadkill because the trauma from most deadly collisions makes the meat go bad.
"You can't eat dirt. The thing is when you get hit hard, you're going to have a lot of tough meat," Higgs said.
California is following more than 20 other states that have already made eating roadkill legal.
UC Davis has maintained a website documenting roadkill incidents across California.
If passed, the law would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2021.