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 A Texas politician has roadkill on his platform — and wants it on residents’ plates. 
 
 Tink Nathan is running against four others for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, and while they’re all Republicans, Nathan has one very unique agenda: overturn the state’s law against collecting roadkill. 
 
 Under the heading, “Tink on the Issues,” on the candidate's website, Nathan said he plans to “revamp the Texas wildlife code to allow people to use road kill deer for human use.” 
 
 This goal is listed before his pro-gun, pro-education and pro-border security promises. 
 
 While collecting and eating roadkill is legal in some states, Texas banned “engaging in the collection of any animal life on public roads or the right-of-way of public roads” in 2007, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife. 
 
 Nathan argued on his Facebook page that in one year, in one Texas county, Department of Transportation employees removed more than 1,400 deer from the roadways, in an operation that was costly to taxpayers. 
 
 Plus, “That meat goes to waste. Why not utilize it," he told The Associated Press. 
 
 Nathan might have an unlikely ally in his corner. The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) says on their website that eating roadkill is more humane than eating animals that come from the “slaughter line” because “perhaps the animals never knew what hit them.” 
 
 — Elisha Fieldstadt 

 Texas Parks and Wildlife says it does not want to get involved in state politics, but it is fairly certain that eating road kill is not good for you, 1200 WOAI news reports. 
 
 Tink Nathan, who owns Tink’s Deer Scent Company and a hunting video firm in Centerpoint is running for State Representative from the Hill Country and one of his campaign planks is to allow Texans to eat critters that they run over with their car. 
 
 "There are obvious public safety and health officials with people stopping on the road to harvest dead animals," TPWD spokesman Mike Cox told 1200 WOAI news. "They could be struck by other vehicles." 
 
 Nathan points out that eating road kill was legal in Texas until six years ago, and other states allow the practice. 
 
 Most of Nathan's campaign is more traditional Republican, including supporting tax cuts, second Amendment rights, and tort reform. But it is the road kill plank which has won him nationwide attention. 
 
 Nathan is running for the State Representative District 53 seat being vacated by Harvey Hilderbran, who is running for State Comptroller. The district runs from Medina County all the way to the Mexican border west of Junction. 
 
 But Cox says allowing motorists to stop on the highway and eat deer that their car has just hit is not a good idea from a safety or a culinary standpoint. 
 
 "Easting dead animals could result in serious health issues for anyone who did something like that," he said.
– Is your average roadkill a stomach-churning mess, or tonight's dinner? A Texas politician says it will become the latter if he wins a seat in the Texas House of Representatives and succeeds in pushing his agenda, NBC News reports. Tink Nathan, a 72-year-old Republican, wants to rescind the state's law against gathering roadkill. "That meat goes to waste. Why not utilize it?" he asks the San Antonio Express-News. "Certainly not all of it could be saved. Nobody will take it if it's stinking," but "axis [deer] venison sells for $26 a pound." On his Facebook page, Nathan says the Department of Transportation collected more than 1,400 deer from roads in a year in a single Texas county—a costly operation. But Texas Park and Wildlife argues that gathering squished animals for dinner is both a health and safety hazard. People collecting roadkill "could be struck by other vehicles," a TPWD spokesman tells WOAI. And "eating dead animals could result in serious health issues for anyone who did something like that." Some states do allow it, but Texas banned the practice in 2007.