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Read the following blurb, determine who the critic writer/journalist/filmmaker in question is, and make an educated guess on when the article describing this critic’s efforts was written.
An institution founded to defend the integrity of canine pedigrees has become, a critic contends, unreasonable in its measure of “excellence” and complicit in rewarding close breeding for suspect qualities resulting in breeds that are now unable to perform their historical functions and which suffer from debilitating diseases.
Don’t bother using google, the blurb has been anonymized so you won’t find the article searching for the quote. Multiple guesses are allowed as long as you pair a critic with a year.
Bonus points if you can name which country and institution is being discussed.
For example:
The blurb describes Christopher Landauer’s article “Border Collie War: AKC vs. ABCA” published 9/10/2007 which critcises both the American Kennel Club and the American Border Collie Association in the USA.
Of course that’s not the right answer, and there are perhaps numerous critics that this could apply to, let’s see how many you can name and I’ll bring you a follow-up article featuring at least one of them I don’t think too many of you know about.
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This is too hard. Need a clue.
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Just start naming candidates. At worst we’ll have a nice list of purebred critiques.
Not hard at all. Just start naming names.
I will start:
Mark Derr criticized the American Kennel Club in the March 1990 edition of Altantic Monthly during his publication of “Politics of Dogs”.
Donald McCaig wrote about the problems of show breeding and the loss of function in the Border Collie (specifically in the AKC in America) in his book “The Dog Wars” published in 2007.
Jemima Harrison, Pedigree Dogs Exposed, UK Kennel Club, 2008
Jonah Goldberg wrote and interesting article called “Westminster Eugenics Show” in which he criticizes the AKC via the vaunted NYC Westminster show for rewarding frufru dogs while real working dogs are out of place and would never have a prayer of winning the competition despite being fundamentally better dogs. National Review 2002.
That Goldberg piece is excellent!
But I think this one of his is even better.
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Albert Payson Terhune 1930 in “In the Best of My Memory”
A wild guess and I picked the book because of its title, but I think he deserves a mention as he would said something like that and would have said it almost 100 years ago.
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