Interesting I know a LOT of people eat them and supposedly opossum tastes like pork my favorite of all…… and I eat other critters rabbit deer squirrel dove etc just something mental is holding me back from trying.I don't know, but I've been told (when I lived in NC) that you need to cage raccoons and opossums, for a week or two and feed them carrots to clean out their system, before you butcher them.