Clubs throughout the US raise them for sport, but few for the meat. they are good producers and a normal loft has to cull them.
I know. I have twenty pair, Homing pigeons. Also called Racing pigeons.
Surprising no one brought it up so far.
There used to be "squab farms", where squab were raised like chickens, geese, turkeys, and ducks, for the table, are raised. That went away quite a while ago; though a few are still in existence but barely, now.