Animal rights activists from Nottingham, London and elsewhere gave a grand farewell to the Kennel Club, hoping that this will be the last year that people will be allowed to breed dogs for racial(breed), purity whilst thousands of healthy dogs die in shelters around the world because of a demand they created.
Demo Panorama
Who protects the purity of the bloodline?
Fluffy Supporters
Incest is NOT Best
Darwin's Nightmare
1. Breeding unhealthy dog's for aesthetic purposes is morally wrong.
2. Breeding dogs is pointless when there are existing dogs all over the world needing homes.
As Ronnie Lee said in an earlier report:
ALL dog breeding is a problem
There is a sense in which all breeding of dogs by human beings is morally unacceptable.
All dogs are descended from the wolf and we only have domestic dogs because human beings, for their own selfish purposes (mainly to kill other animals) deliberately bred wolves in a selective fashion in order to create all the different shapes and sizes of dogs we have today.
It could therefore be argued that we are morally obliged to cease the breeding of dogs, while at the same time doing our utmost to protect wolves in the wild and to preserve their habitat. As long as we have the wolf, the dog will not die out, as they are essentially the same species.
In addition, it is surely also morally unacceptable to deliberately or negligently breed dogs (no matter how kindly the breeder might be) in a situation where many thousands of dogs are being "put down" every year because no homes are available for them.
Alice Walker's words (from her book "The Color Purple") that "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women for men" are just as much applicable to dogs/wolves as they are to any other animal.
That is not to say, of course, that we should not try to help dogs that have already been bred, in order to save them from death and suffering.
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Links
'Pedigree Dogs Exposed
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44215931 PETA's Kennel club spoof
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rxAaK0iJ2vQ&feature=related Independent article
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-big-question-is-the-breeding-of-pedigree-dogs-leading-to-cruel-abnormalities-902853.html Animal Rights Calendar listing
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=30 
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