That is actually one thing that none of the shows have been clear on... if you eat or drink on the holodeck, does whatever you consume simply disappear from inside your stomach as soon as you leave the holodeck?
I think it's safe to say that anything intended for immediate consumption is swapped out with replicated food or drink on an as-needed basis, while the stuff on the shelf is probably holographic. You wouldn't want to have a holodeck picnic than suddenly find yourself called to the bridge to fight the Romulans on an empty stomach.
Some items like snow or rainfall may include replicated water and snow in the immediate vicinity of the person it lands on to give a realistic taste, texture, and wetness/melting. Hence the replicated snowballs leaving the holodeck, or Wesley's dripping clothes.
Ships like Voyager with replicator rationing would obviously be an exception to this, so if you were having a holodeck picnic, Neelix would probably have to pack a lunch for you and you'd carry it aboard the holodeck.
Also, if Janeway had just showed some compassion when she found out what the Eauinix crew were doing (not condoning it, but understanding that desperate people can make bad choices), instead of playing the cold, merciless b
role to the hilt, the situation might have come to a less awful end.
Bad choices? Yeah, I'd say mass murder, torture (of the aliens and 7-of-9), reprogramming the EMH to be a killer, stealing vital parts from Voyager that left them vulnerable, and exploitation of an alien species as fuel, one that had shown no prior aggression towards you, and causing that alien species to attack an allied ship and kill members of the Voyager crew, just qualifies as some run-of-the-mill "bad choices" that deserve compassion.
Then there's the fact that they kept it a secret (compassion usually follows admitting what you've done) and intended to betray Voyager and continue to do it when presented with the opportunity to join up with a larger, safer, more well-equipped ship, meaning it wasn't just about personal safety any more, they weren't willing to make the sacrifice of a longer journey home like the Voyager crew had when they saw an opportunity to get home faster by murdering more aliens.
Janeway showed Ransom compassion when he owned up to his crimes and finally did the right thing in the end. She showed compassion by giving the survivors a chance to redeem themselves as crewmembers instead of confining them to quarters for the rest of the journey. Nothing that happened before that was worthy of compassion.
Yeah, she crossed the line by potentially exposing Lessing to an alien attack, though it's deliberately left up in the air if she was bluffing and would have reestablished shields at the last moment had Chakotay not intervened. But that's not even remotely on the same playing field as Captain Ransom's crimes.
