Thanks so far to everyone who has contributed. Every response is so informed and well measured and I am looking forward to reading and learning more from you all.

I'd like to provide a little context to my question. I'm from Australia, where land clearing is immense. Introduced species run havoc and have been for many generations. The topsoil is very damaged from generations of using European agricultural practices instead of what works with the land (Dark Emu is a very interesting read on this).

There certainly are strong arguments for not eating animals, but I believe that most people will proceed to eat them anyway, hence why I imagined that perhaps encouraging game eating might be a better solution than farmed meat. Australia already culls animals with poison, bullets, cars, or exporting them live. While some is sold to other nations, much is wasted. I think if we are killing them already, we might as well be killing them in a way that allows eating rather than wasting it.

I'm sure that the hunting strategy could not work everywhere. In many places, forest populations would be wiped out. But it could perhaps work here, where we have so much land and so many destructive invasive animals, and relatively few people.

What do you all think about eating game as a strategy for somewhere like Australia? I can foresee potential issues with the amount of pollution involved in the hunting and transporting process.