Social pressure did not put an end to it- mass slaughter of the animals put an end to it as they came close to extinction , with an estimated population of less than a 100 left in the 1880s, down from 25-30 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#19th_century_bison_hunts_and_near_extinction
And this hunting was not for food far too much of the time...