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Thats a good idea, certainly better than dinking around with the genome of already threatened creatures like that genius above suggests.

Dodos would have a short life cycle and after produced a million or so could be bred quite quickly to look for genetically created diseases we may have accidentally created or other research like getting an idea of the real effect these creatures would have on different environments before being released anywhere.

And who knows? They might actually taste good or at least palatably different as many fowl do. If you had a million (magic number) and they dressed at 10lbs (because that makes the math easy) and you sold them for $10/lb (chickens dont but this would be trendy at first) then you would have quite reserve for propelling future work.

If we screw something up and some do get away we should be able to retrieve them easily, they arent likely to destroy much, and we dont lose another species if we wind up at square one.

What kind of PR nightmare are they going to create for this type of work if the first couple have temperaments like african elephants and yank the limbs of of a couple of researchers at feeding time? I dont think that losing researchers or difficulty in the news cycle is such a big risk with dodos. Its might actually be the opposite because Gen Z knows that dodos are wacky survivalist types with a humorous form of martial arts and who wouldnt want to fund that?