I've had two drinks, why not pitch a grenade:
The only thing wrong about the RFK dog thing is the racism. If you eat meat, there is no good reason for any variety of animal to be off limits, unless it's endangered.
I eat VERY little meat. And my rule is that it must be humanely raised and quickly killed without stress/suffering.
My only beef (pun intended) with dog meat is that it's often like veal in its treatment.
I totally agree with the first part of your statement (and don't know enough to agree with the second).
My biggest regret when it comes to processing our animals is having to ship them somewhere. I wish it could be done on site to reduce stress.
When I was living in Seoul, there was a whole debate about “should we stop eating dog meat because the foreigners dislike the tradition?”
There was no humane ending to the meat-trade dogs’ lives. That was the bigger problem. Those animals suffered greatly.
And I say that with full admission that I’m alive today because an ancestor or several survived a famine or siege by eating what was available: cats, dogs, rats, songbirds, whatever they could catch. Historical fact.