Nor is finger-lick'n possum a real option. First, they are solitary animals which fight when housed in groups. For example, the 1885 Game Act in South Australia outlawed the use of the punt gun, a device mounted on a boat which could reputedly kill 150 pelicans with one shot. They have been purpose bred and selected for thousands of years. With 19 million people in Australia, there is no going back.
Wildlife can never provide serious food for such a population.
Put simply, real greenies don't eat meat. Information about the growth rate and feeding habits of Possums is strictly anecdotal and comes from Matilda who is about 8 months old and 1.6Kg. These are fairly standard broiler industry feed conversion rates. Stokes, K.-J., ed.