Yet AGAIN with the "Save the Bears" Campaign!

[The Bread Guy]

Previous discussion on the bearskin issue here - this time, a Brit actor calling for protecting the bears.  Repeat after me, PETA - "sustainable resource".  :

Michael Sheen calls for ban on bearskins
Clare Hutchinson, Western Mail, 1 May 09
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ACTOR Michael Sheen has asked Gordon Brown to call for an immediate end to the killing of black bears for Welsh Guards’ bearskin hats.

The Port Talbot leading man, who has portrayed former Prime Minister Tony Blair in the 2006 film The Queen and on television in The Deal, wrote to the PM on behalf of animal charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

In the letter, Sheen, pictured, accused the Ministry of Defence of going back on their promise to find a synthetic alternative to bear- skin.

He said: “Not only is the purchase and importation of bearskins from Canada a deplorable waste of military funding, it is also a waste of animals’ lives.”....

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Sheen's Yahoo Movies profile here
Sheen in Paramount's "The Four Feathers" (2002)

 

[George Wallace]

Had it not been for some bear in WW I being left in the relative safety of the London Zoo the Brits wouldn't have such a warm and fuzzy about bears.

Blame it on Winnie!

 

[daftandbarmy]

Here's an 'Earth Day' idea. He's from Port Talbot. For those of us who have been out on the town in Port Talbot, it is clear that the bears' place could easily be taken by some of the local femme fatales. Perhaps a suitable swap could be negotiated...  ;D

 

[The Bread Guy]

<Parochial factoid tangent>

Had it not been for some bear in WW I being left in the relative safety of the London Zoo the Brits wouldn't have such a warm and fuzzy about bears.

Blame it on Winnie!

A bear from White River, Ontario, no less.
</Parochial factoid tangent>

 

[The Bread Guy]

Here we go once again - this, from campaignlive.co.uk:

Animal rights charity Peta has launched a campaign across London buses to highlight the use of real bear fur in the iconic caps of the Queen's Guards.

The ad features a Queen's Guard wearing a bleeding bear cap and says "MOD: Go fur-free - It Can Take the Entire Hide of One Bear to Make Just One Cap".

The campaign, which is running on 25 buses with advertising sold by CBS Outdoor, is the first part of Peta's 2010 push to get the Ministry of Defence to switch from Canadian black-bear pelts to faux fur.

Peta says it can take the entire hide of a bear to make a single cap and many bears are shot several times before they die, some leaving orphaned cubs behind to starve.

Poorva Joshipura of Peta said the Ministry of Defence is "paying real money to maim and shoot black bears while giving mere lip service to modernising the caps and putting a stop to the abuse".

Joshipura said: "'Tradition is no excuse for cruelty, and we plan to make this the year that everyone hears about how slowly the British military adapts to change." ....