[troyvit]

This is a good way to put it. Because we humans tend to eliminate the large predators that we need to control some populations, we have a bunch of potential protein that would otherwise go to waste, why not mix it in?

There's room for tofu and meat in a diet, and if you're hurting financially things like this program, married with other cheap protein sources, is not only a great way to go but what a morale booster.

When I was a kid and we were broke a friend of ours gave my mom some rabbit. Alone it's not fatty enough to keep you alive but she mixed it up well with other stuff and we felt like we were having a feast.

Regarding the environmental downside of cattle, I couldn't agree more. We know several plains farmers who don't keep cattle but, after harvest let deer come onto their land to eat the leftover stuff in the ground and poop it back out as fertilizer. Once that's cleared out they shoot the deer and sell the meat. Yeah it isn't as profitable as a CAFO, but it's a hell of a lot less work, actually helps the land, and it tastes pretty good too.

And yeah I'd hate to be tracked and killed as you say. But then I picture being born in a prison and growing up to mid-childhood with the express purpose of being killed, and I know which one I'd pick.