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I think the only 'good' breeders are the type like some zoos and animal parks who are doing what they can to get an endangered species numbers back to the point where they can be re-introduced into the wild.

Otherwise, being a breeder is totally in opposition to being a rescue. The breeding is creating the problem that the rescues are trying to solve. It's completely twisted logic when one is helping to create the same problem one is trying to solve. If I run a drug rehab clinic by day, but sell drugs by night, does that make me a good person? Hardly, it makes me duplicitious and hypocritical.

If a good person realises they are intentionally doing something bad, they ought to stop the bad thing rather than try to justify or offset it.

Breeders make money in volume. Remember the thread about the breeder who died and left behind 500 pigs? I don't think it's _extremely_ profitable, but there is profit to be made with a solid business model, otherwise people wouldn't be doing it. 'Solid business model' is horrible for the pigs though. One person can't realistically be expected to care for that many pigs, not if the pigs are to have any real quality of life that is.