Janet Street-Porter eats roadkill and regularly collects animals she finds that are dead and takes them home to cook.
Janet Street-Porter
The 72-year-old TV personality is more than happy to grab a deceased deer from the side of the road and skin and butcher it for her and her long-term partner Peter Spanton to dine on, insisting it is an environmentally friendly menu choice.
Janet made her confession during a panel discussion on 'Loose Women' with Brenda Edwards, Saira Khan and Christine Lampard on Tuesday (24.09.19) about whether or not eating meat could be criminalised in the future.
She said; "I eat roadkill. If see a deer by the side of the road that's been hit by a lorry or a car [I pick it up], what else are you going to do? We used to eat it, there's nothing wrong with it. You can go on YouTube and watch a video on how to slaughter it. Venison is a free range meat that lives on grains and it is very healthy, better than most chickens . I eat game, I eat fish, we had a fish last week that we caught, put a line in the river, caught a sea bass nothing wrong with that."
Janet doesn't agree with the current trend of people ditching meat from their diets and going vegan, insisting it is not as good for your health or as environmentally friendly some people think.
She added: "I understand why a lot of people have become vegan and vegetarian, I don't agree with it and also don't agree with all the claims made for following a vegan diet. I don't think it's any better for the environment than a diet that's balanced that has less meat and more grains ... What's happened with vegetables is that a large number of the vegetables we grow are raised in green houses or poly tunnels and are raised using all sorts of chemicals, or are flown in."
However, the other panellists did not share Janet's appetite for roadkill with the trio recoiling in disgust at her admission she is drive-by scavenger for animal carcasses.
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