Dining on Humans — Eero Tarik

The representative of the Galactic Council arrived with a simple trade deal. One million humans for the live meat trade with the Antarans, in exchange for the most modern fold space ship, along with the life of the leader of the nation agreeing to the deal. Would a government be able to put together a deal in twenty four hours? Would a business consortium succeed?
A sci fi short story of approx 6,500 words.