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PETA sucks. This infoposter from Online Schools, though slanted, is remarkably accurate on the subject of PETA's hypocrisy.
For the record, I have no problem with shelters killing animals that are unadoptable-- it's what I wish they'd do with most individuals of the pitbull type of dog instead of trying to rehabilitate those with "problems". I'm not even sure that human beings on the extreme end of the spectrum of "aggressive and violent" can be rehabilitated, and I'm morally certain that dogs cannot (meaning I would not accept the risk of exposing anyone to a 'rehabilitated' mean dog).
The problem that I have with shelters is exemplified by their method of disposing of, for instance, rabbits; in the last resort they euthanise them and that protein goes... nowhere useful. There are plenty of hungry humans, even setting aside those I'd rather not see fed, who'd benefit from rabbit stew. Given that I wouldn't care if starving humans ate my dead body (though I'd rather not be murdered for my meat), I don't think that putting a healthy but absolutely surplus rabbit in the pot does any harm. If it was a pet for years, there are implicit human responsibilities and concerns that should have been addressed-- but by the original keeper of the rabbit.
Now, the third item and pressing question is, why not make puppy tacos? (Let's not consider eating cat. I wouldn't, and in that I include trapped bobcat, while having no absolute objection to trapping bobcats when they are not endangered. It just so happens, they're all endangered (mostly by loss of habitat).) I see no reason not to, though I see many good reasons to avoid a situation (that is, birth of more puppies than anyone needs or can care for) where it becomes necessary. Ideally there would be no unadoptable puppies, but that's far from probable any time soon.
And the only reason I might not support (which doesn't mean "try to stamp out") raising dogs for meat is the conversion factor: they take an omnivorous, and in fact heavily carnivorous diet suitable to the canine niche in the food web. Eating dog meat could be called a habit of too much, or too little: too much money, too many running-loose dogs to get rid of; or, too little money, too little control of canine reproduction.
And finally, NB: "whale boat attackers" are for the most part just enforcing international law on the high seas, without a badge but with every moral right and my approbation to do so.
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