I find bison meat is a real treat. It's red meat like beef, but more lean. And very tasty. Unfortunately it's also more expensive.
I saw a documentary called "Guns, Germs, and Steel". One major point is civilization is successful when it uses food sources that evolved for that environment, not food imported from a different climate. The show gave an example that attempts to grow wheat in Africa were a failure, for a few reasons, sorghum is a local grain that works. So I looked at Manitoba. Bison and elk are native, so should make great meat. And there are 2 varieties of bison: prairie and forest. Forest bison are even larger, and eat plants native to boreal forest. You can't grow much on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, because it's boreal forest growing directly on Canada shield. Soil is just inches thick before you get bedrock, with patches of bedrock exposed on the surface. Not much grows there. But you could ranch forest bison. And elk eat plants that grow in the northern part of the Interlake (between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba/Lake Winnipegosis/Cedar Lake). So you could pasture elk on land not suitable for traditional crops. Pasturing means the animals will harvest the plants themselves, no need for a harvester. But for some reason farmers are raising prairie bison and elk on land in southern Manitoba, and feeding them grain. That raises the cost. Manitobans are cheap, if you provide red meat at a lower price per pound than beef, they'll buy that. At a higher price, you have a very limited market. Oh well.
