On Friday, August "As It Happens", CBC radio's national news interview program, http://www.cbc.ca/aih/ posed two questions:
Question one: Why is a B-C branch of the S-P-C-A having a live-crab cook-off? Question two: Is it any surprise the local organization was threatened by animal rights activists?
The host interviewed the SPCA's P.R. person Lorie Chortyk about the crab-boil uproar. Chortyk said that she had only heard of the event on Monday, but when the interviewer asked if the event had been held before she admitted that it had been held last year. But she justified it on the grounds of it being culturally acceptable in fishing communities. She admitted that the SPCA depends on public goodwill.