Some Buddhists who are vegetarian will justify eating Yaks because one yak can provide food for many people and only requires one life to be lost, as opposed to chickens or fish. The same can be true for computer science.
I have seen of the scrawnier ones in labs, they probably would only feed one or two people so I am not sure the utilitarian approach is a winner ? Maybe if we fed them a diet of Mountain Dew and Pizza it might improve the flavours?
You could spend a couple of days chasing down the larger specimens, but they tend to put up more of a struggle, and in the time spent, you could have a dozen scrawny engineers already in your larder or stew.
Fascinating discussion :-)