Personally I really do NOT need to know who bred a cat before someone else may have bought it. When I am out shopping I am not looking for the breeder I am looking for the traits I desire so for me it is the cat that is important not who may have bred it or bought it.
Personally I think showing the breeder is only going to lead to more elitist attitudes that if you haven't bred out a certain amount of that line you aren't a so called "good breeder". Which has already caused people to feel badly for what they breed and sell and made them rethink what they buy because they aren't willing to spend thousands of lindens on something they won't be allowed to sell until they have owned and bred the line enough for those buyers to consider them an actual breeder.
This attitude also has caused many new people to KittyCatS to feel badly because they don't own the grandparents or whatever, to me the thing I love about KittyCatS is the community and I just see this making the community more bitter and elitist which isn't something that sounds like fun in the least for me.
Edited to add in I do think the people who breed the kittehs do deserve reconziation but as we have sen in a post on the forum a couple weeks ago there are those who feel if you don't breed the whole line it isn't worth as much, even going so far as to NOT buy the kitteh for sale but going back to the original breeder of a certain trait.