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[Aspgren]

That sounds pretty much like it.

 I wonder who thought of this. The description seems to revel in the cruelty .. it is a gastronomical perversion cooked up by a very odd mind. A mealtime favorite of Marquis de Sade perhaps?

 Strangely intriguing.

[Mickey Blue]

Lobsters die the moment they hit the boiling water, if it makes you feel any better, and they are about the same level of evolution as cockroaches which odds are people don't have an issue with killing.

That aside, yes it makes no sense that you cannot butcher an animal that has just died, even if its not the ideal today in the twelfth century in a hole in the wall where a bunch of half naked creatures are starving to death I doubt they'd be put off, heck I imagine they'd eat it raw.

That said (umm.. Again..) in the current version you cannot butcher a dead animal so if you have no other plans for them you should just butcher them, get the food, bone, skull and leather.

[Murphy]

A bug? In real life, do people butcher dead animals for eating? I hope not *sick*

Now, if you are a farmer and your cow died from colliding with an obstacle (hit by a car or something) you will probably butcher the corpse and salt the meat ASAP. In fact, I've read and heard of such cases and it's not like they buried the corpse or burned it unless it was somehow spoiled.

If the cow died from disease, however, then yeah maybe it's not a good idea to make steaks from it.

[Aspgren]

The problem with butchering roadkill, I think, is that the intestines could rupture. Bladders and glands and all kinds of shit (literally and figuratively) could infect the meat.

You'd think that cooking could help against this.. but unless you cook the whole cow right after butchering there's no telling what state the meat will be in once you take it out of the fridge/freezer ... no matter how thoroughly you've cleaned/salted it.

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Note I am not actually saying the cow should be disposed of. I think people who can't stomache a little spoiled meat are grade-A pussies! .. but that's not exactly what health officials overseeing sales think. If you have bad meat in your fridge you can cut out the parts that'll make you "really sick" and keep the parts that'll just "upset" you a little.
 There is no way to say "good enough" and send it to consumers.
 All stomaches don't work the same and even minor food poisoning from bought meat is a bad thing. If meat hits the store shelves it better be so well put together and fresh that children on the verge of death should be able to handle it. Food regulations are STRICT and they are so for a good reason! (grade-A pussies need to eat too)
 So depending on where you are you might not be allowed to sell that cow at all. Or you have to thoroughly examine and treat the meat for all the crap that infected it ... which, I imagine, isn't always an option. Might even cost extra! How long after death can you butcher a cow according to standing regulations? Do butchers have work hours and unions? Can you call them in the middle of the night for immediate butchery? How much is a cow worth anyway? Would they be payed overtime? Would the bacteria-filled cow carcass be prioritized in the butchery like an emergency, or would they just peel the meat off and use the bones? Would the farmer lose even more cash because of all of this? I don't know.

 It seems really logical to me though that you'd end up with a freezer full of semi-decent cow meat for personal use if you decided to use the corpse ... and that's something I doubt farmers in general want. In general I think they'd just collect insurance and do away with the shit-meat in whatever way they can. Fertilizer or catfood maybe.

Spoilered because I don't actually have any facts to go on I'm just pulling this out of my ass.

[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

Unfortunately, tame animals that die of any cause other than being slaughtered at the butchers workshop itself can't be butchered.

Just want to point out that this is, in fact, a bug, and with any luck it will be fixed at some point in the future.

A bug? In real life, do people butcher dead animals for eating? I hope not *sick*

Or am I thinking "Interview with the Vampire"? 

You were thinking we cut them up while they were still alive?