Farming is not comparable to slavery or vice-versa. Killing an animal is wrong, yes, but it's not murder. Producing vast amounts of chicken nuggets is not genocide (something they tried to argue in that idiotic campaign they had comparing animal slaughter to the Holocaust.)
Do you see how you have to move beyond the topic of dog shows there? That's having a different conversation altogether, which (and no offense intended) is something PETA excels at doing, because it makes it easier to build the straw men.
Treating pit bulls as dangerous beasts but Dobermans as fine is not the same as discriminating against people of color or religious minorities.
I would submit that treating putt bulls as dangerous beasts and dobermans as fine is still wrong and bad for all dogs in general. I'm actively saying that PETA's protest is promoting this misconception that is already common in the US and other places.
Cockfighting/dogfighting is cruel- very cruel- but not comparable to what the Romans did to their slaves.
Again, you're getting way off tangent here by mentioning the games in ancient Rome. The pop-culture idea of what went on and what really went on are the same in concept but the details and conditions are far different.
Well, since PETA themselves equated pure breeding to discrimination against blacks- breeding dogs together in an effort to create the kind of dogs you want is problematic, yes, but that's something not immoral or illegal to do. However, if you did that to two slaves (which was once a common practice in America), it would be a crime worse than rape.
What do you actually know about dog breeding outside of AR rhetoric? Do you understand the idea of breeding to a standard and not breeding to create some desired "kind of dogs" just because someone wants one. There are people who
do breed "designer" dogs, and as far as I know reputable breeders dislike that practice. Additionally, literally
all of the reputable breeders I have known or have met make no profit off the dogs they sell, and generally frown on those who breed and sell dogs for profit. You should really re-think some of your preconceptions about what a breeder actually does, and the difference between responsible breeders-- which are what groups like the various kennel clubs try to promote-- and the irresponsible breeders who are trying to make a buck from mistreating animals.
Killing and eating an animal may be something you object to but it's not murder or cannibalism, as it would be with a person.
Bringing veg[etari]an equating arguments in is nowhere near a rational example. I have to feed my cats food that comes from the meat of other animals, and they would (and have, actually) kill and eat on their own if they weren't kept by me. Eating meat for sustenance is not some kind of objective moral wrong. It can be an ethical issue for people sapient enough to conclude it is an issue and who are capable of adjusting accordingly, but unless you can tell me a restaurant in the US where I can get some dog meat you're basically creating a red herring anyway.
You can take away an animal's offspring from them for your own purposes, brand them, tag them, force them to fight one another for your amusement (still legal in some places), put them in zoos or circuses, take away the products they produce (eggs, milk, honey), have them do jobs or work for you (guard dogs, farm horses), use their body parts (sheep's wool, a horse's hair), all things you can't do to a person. I'm sure it's not very pleasant for a sheep to be sheared but it's not a crime the way scalping someone or stealing someone's hair and selling it would be.
Most of what you mentioned applies in no way to mongrel dogs. Can you at least
try to stay on-subject? As for working, dogs are very much like (most) people in that they tend to prefer to have something to keep them occupied. Dogs who work or perform tasks usually enjoy the work and would be less happy or possibly even basket-cases without them. Other dogs aren't as inclined to work, but those dogs are not typically made to do so. Dogs of different types have spent the last 15,000 years adapting to various conditions of the people they've grown familiar with. This is actually how so many different breeds have developed, because they evolve so quickly that within just a few generations one kind of dog could resemble something totally different with normal, natural environmental changes. Add to that the instinctual desires inherent in hunting dogs to hunt, working dogs to crave direction, etc., and you have variations of behavioral traits in dogs that, if not addressed by the people they're familiar with, would be harmful to the dogs themselves.
Discriminating against African-Americans is against the law. Discriminating against some dog breeds isn't. If a foster family only wanted to take white children and not blacks or Hispanics, I'd think they were awful people. If a family only wanted to buy a pure-breed for themselves and refused to adopt a mixed breed from an animal shelter, all I might think is that these people are not very kind to animals.
Bull***t, pure and simple. Just because you have that straw man built up in your mind does not in any way resemble the reality out there in the real world. Both dogs in my home right now are rescues, but the fact that neither of them are mongrels (well, we're not
totally sure about the GSD) has nothing to do with why they were chosen. One came into the home because she had a need for a home, and the other came into the home because he would have been put to sleep otherwise. If I could personally save every healthy dog on their way to be put down I would, but I haven't the means nor the property for it. The fact that you make up such awful assumptions about why people in general would take in a dog displays more about your own understanding than the motives of others. I'd say that I'm not an average pet owner because my household is active and in regular contact with rescue networks, but in general average households tend to look for youth and friendliness as the main factors when shopping for dogs, whether purchasing or adopting. The older ones tend to get put down or are taken into homes like mine.
So, can you please give some examples of the "million things" that are
actually done to dogs that you can't do to people? Try to remember to stay within the discussion of
dogs and not try to turn it into a veg[etari]an argument or a history discussion. We're talking about dogs and we're talking about now... or, at least,
I am.
