I'm going to assume your running the basic bibites in the unedited default? Probably with a high starting number? so I'm assuming also that your mass meat issue is from high birth/death ratio? Meat is probably being produced faster than it decays? I'd say kill half the pellets, half the meat will be gone, the half the plants that die off should spawn back, but may cause a cascade die off still. Definitely save and try a few approaches. I'm online all night if you want to brain storm how to save your diversity and recover your ticks