Logically there is no difference between eating dog and cat meat and any other kind of meat. The only reason it will never be socially acceptable is because dogs and cats are “cute”. Youtube is full of videos of people going “awwww so cute” to dogs and cats.
This is the same reason that out of the hundreds of endangered species, pandas and monkeys etc. get the most attention. Remember “Justice for Harambe”? That wouldn’t have happened for an ugly insect or rodent, however endangered it might be.
Fundamentaly, the leftist liberal animal rights advocates like PETA and their ilk aren’t actually doing what they do because they selflessly love animals, they’re doing it to make themselves feel better – a sort of subconscious substitute for the lack of spiritual fulfillment in their materialistic lives.