Via an email from Patrick:
The makers of Pedigree Dogs Exposed, the BBC documentary film that led to the BBC withdrawing from televising Crufts Dog Show in the UK are furious with PETA for jumping on the film’s bandwagon. *
Why?
“I am horrified that PETA is using the film to further its own, warped agenda,” says Jemima Harrison, of Passionate Productions, which made the film for the BBC. “Our film is about animal welfare, not animal rights.
“PETA’s animal welfare record is appalling. It kills 97 per cent of the dogs that come to its shelters and admits its ultimate aim is to rid the world of what it calls the “domestic enslavement” of dogs as either pets or working dogs.
“In stark contrast, and the reason we made the film, is that we believe pedigree dogs are of tremendous value to society and that something needs to be done to arrest the damage caused by decades of inbreeding and selection for ‘beauty’. The film is a passionate call for urgent reform to save them before it is too late. To do that, there needs to be urgent reform of breeding practices and dog shows. *
[emphasis mine]
Sorry PETA – you have a track record. Pretending to care about animal welfare? That dog won’t hunt.
If you haven’t seen it already, Pedigree Dogs Exposed is worth checking out, as are Patrick’s posts on the subject.
I remember first reading about PETA’s animal-killing ways on petakillsanimals.com (see site link for my reaction to all that) and followup showed it to be more or less true.
It’s disturbing that this organization (PETA, that is) is allowed to be so respected and renown among those who love animals when the fact of the matter is they’re a destructive and radically illogical force for some kind of misguided notion of animal “rights”. This apparently involves killing animals so they can’t be made into slaves? Transfering that scenario to human beings would have them performing euthenasia in orphanages in countries where children may end up as slaves. Crazy.