I have reached a decision. My cooking has not been going as well as I had hoped for. The image above is from when I tried to make stuffed cactus by cutting the cactus in half. Needless to say, that did not end up as planned. As my various cooking projects have ended in not the best of ways, I have decided to take another approach to my cactus endeavor. I have decided to use cactus as a way to feed cattle instead of humans. As cattles have a less discerning sense of taste, I figure they as a whole would be more open to eating cactus than humans. Admittedly some humans do enjoy the taste of cactus, and I hope that they continue their cactus-eating, but as a whole they may be less welcoming of cactus as a new food than cows. After doing some preliminary research, I found out that nopales or "prickly pear" cacti have been used as cattle feed before. It works best when combined with hay. Apparently the cactus has been used as cattle feed for over 100 years. It is not widely used but the cows that do use the cacti were healthy enough. The farmers  singed the spikes off of the cacti to get rid of the harmful sharp parts. This seems like a much more plausible idea than replacing all human-eaten corn products with cactus. Since cattle feed makes up so much of the annual corn consumed, this solution will actually make the most difference. I am working to compare cactus with corn as cattle feed and figure out how much cactus feed is needed vs silage, what nutrients cattle can gain from cactus, and other such facts.