A Biased BBC reader flags up a looming issue;
“First to emphasise that this is a prediction not a report.
Following the impact of the BBC’s Pedigree Dogs Examined, where the BBCwithdrew coverage of Crufts and other organizations, including the RSPCA,withdrew from their annual coverage of Crufts, several reports were compiled bythe welfarati concerning pedigree dogs. Basically they all shared the view thatthe Kennel Club were encouraging the production of canine mutants for showingpurposes. The original programme, made by Gemima Harrison, received severalcomplaints and in some respects followed the BBC tradition of dishonourablereporting: eg. Nazi eugenics imagery flashed next to photographs of the KCbuilding and in a discussion on line breeding the BBC interview asked the KCChairman if he would have sex with his daughter. Several complaints wereupheld.
As mentioned, several welfare organizations set up opposition to aestheticevaluation of dogs, insisting that criteria for health should replaceaesthetics – as if the two stood in polar opposition. The RSPCA,in a fit of PC,banned charity shows in their domain which held classes for the ‘prettiestbitch’. Meanwhile the All Party Animal Welfare Group had their say and appearto be active in the new programme which could well be scheduled just ahead ofCrufts in order to generate hostile anti-KC publicity. You will note that aleading member of the APAWG is Caroline Lucas (MP for Brighton and Gaza). Acouple of weeks ago the APAWG met with interested ‘stakeholders’ in the Commonsbut the KC who were invited declined to attend. The reason was that the eventwas being filmed by Harrison and Passionate Productions for the BBC, and thatthe latter’s impartiality was seriously impaired.
I predict a major row between the KC and Crufts on one side and the BBC withsupport from the leftish welfarati on the other. The science of genetics willbe trotted out by the BBC’s impartial science reporters and demonstrations byPETA (semi naked celebrities?) will be widely reported by the BBC…”