When elephants and other “African Big Game” are hunted legally, the meat is eaten by the locals ... it’s part of the deal. Bwana pays a boatload of money for the privilege of shooting the beast, the locals get a feast. And the money.
I doubt the poachers do that. Now if they’re managed or husbanded and the parts are used, that I have less problem with. But just decimating wild herds for tusks or feathers or other vanity items I have no use for.
Poachers should be shot on sight.