The first recorded mention of the Vultumite sect of was in the December 2027 issue of the Conscientious Eater magazine.  However, the group’s practices had long been popular in many rural areas of the United States, especially the Ozarks.  The Vultumites believed the only acceptable food was that which had died of natural  causes.  The movement quickly grew in popularity, since it allowed the practitioner the freedom to eat virtually any food he or she wanted (including meat, fish, poultry, and fruits and vegetables) with no guilt, as long as it had died naturally.  The movement’s popularity, however, was short lived, as were many of the followers.  “They was a weird bunch,” said Stone County, Missouri, Deputy Coroner Otto Flood.  “I’m gonna miss ‘em, though.  They really kept the roads clean.”