EA Project 8: Black-faced Spoonbill

Ooh, that is an exquisite bill. I wonder if I may pick your brain on something? I saw a picture on facebook drawing attention to how the American populace made a bigger deal of the news that twinkies would stop being sold compared to the news that the eastern cougar had been put on the endangered list, so the government should ban a snack treat every time an animal becomes endangered - someone commented that we could solve world hunger and the problem of endangered animals simultaneously by eating endangered animals - creating a demand for them, farming them, and thus increasing their numbers. They were immediately shot down because "it's not about keeping wild animals shut up in cages". Is it a completely rotten idea? There would be issues of the animal not being that tasty and difficulties rearing it, but I have heard of a species of boar being brought back from the brink of extinction in the UK by (bizarrely) becoming a delicacy. It certainly wouldn't be feasible for all endangered species, but perhaps for some that are impossible to battery-farm (like sheep, but endangered)? But then I think about that whale that was hunted to extinction for its meat and blubber, and I see here that even venturing to photograph the black-faced spoonbill disturbs it enough to threaten it - and I think, OK, eating endangered animals is just as stupid as it sounds. What does your experience on this matter say? :-S