Do you know if anyone eats the elephants meat?
Absolutely. Any time an elephant is killed legally, the meat goes to local villages.
Moral posturing aside...
Let's put this as succinctly as possible:
Allow sport hunting for elephants: deprive the poachers, feed villages and save the elephants.
Ban sport hunting for elephants: enable the poachers, starve villages, and doom the elephants to extinction.
Ivory bans have not stopped poachers or the black market ivory trade. All they accomplished was to drive up the price of ivory to the point where many government officials started taking bribes to help the poachers. When Kenya banned sport hunting, President Kenyatta's family was openly involved in the illegal ivory trade. Within 5 years of the ban, Kenya lost half it's elephant population, and they have been in decline ever since. The Northern White Rhino is now
EXTINCT in the wild. The last small herd in Kenya had armed guards following it around 24 hours a day, and it still got wiped out. The Southern White Rhino, which can still be legally hunted, has had an
INCREASE in population in the last ten years.
East Africa used to be a wildlife paradise. Now,
thanks to the ban on sport hunting, if you want to see herds of elephants and rhinos, you have to go south.