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Remember when there was the furor over dolphins being caught in tuna nets? Would there have been the same reaction if it had been barracuda being caught in those nets? Unlikely
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I always saw the dolphin thing as an unfortunate side effect of fishing for something that dolphins also use as a food source, they unknowingly put themselves in harms way.
My MAIN issue is that when I buy a can of tuna, I want it to be just that...so I object to ANYTHING being caught but tuna. I myself buy greenseas tuna, which claims to be dolphin free...all I can really do is believe them. As for the comparison to barracuda, well, I think theyre pretty cool myself, so personally I WOULD find it dissapointing, however...dolphins are a more intelligent, and human friendly species, they can even be trained to detect cancer/tumours...etc. They're one of a few species that actually expresses an interest and curiousity not unlike our own, to communicate with, and relate to other species. To kill these creatures under ANY circumstances really IS a shame, but hey...again, my main issue is - I don't wanna eat something I haven't purchased specifically.
re: The snake thing -
When a snake is in the wild, it's natural state - it will prefer to eat all manner of things live. However, it's been proven that these animals CAN consume insects (available live at most pet shops I know), and frozen mice/rats. Yes, of course the snake would most likely prefer to be fed these live mice, but some would argue it'd also much rather be living in the wild, and not as a pet.
In my experience, reptiles don't really like being kept as pets, but that's just my take. I'm only really writing this to let you know that there ARE perfectly suitable alternatives - I myself am not against feeding live mice to pet snakes (although I must say, I'd prefer mice were used over rats)...as again, it's not solely for entertainment...however entertaining a snake eating one may be, it's still essentially for the survival of the creature.
I guess I am a little biased, but not in terms of cute and cuddly, rather intelligence and personality.