Despite being given examples of synthetic alternatives, the Minister of Defence continues to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to killers of black bears in Canada. These bears are enticed with food before being shot several times. Those who escape injured die painfully and slowly from blood loss, gangrene and starvation. Nursing mothers are shot, leaving orphaned cubs to die of starvation. Each of these purely ceremonial caps is made using the carcass of a Canadian black bear. The Minister of Defence claims to have found no "suitable alternative". Please sign this petition and let Des Browne know that you are not fooled by his weak excuses.
Despite being given examples of synthetic alternatives, the Minister of Defence continues to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to killers of black bears in Canada. These bears are enticed with food before being shot several times. Those who escape injured die painfully and slowly from blood loss, gangrene and starvation. Nursing mothers are shot, leaving orphaned cubs to die of starvation. Each of these purely ceremonial caps is made using the carcass of a Canadian black bear. The Minister of Defence claims to have found no "suitable alternative". Please sign this petition and let Des Browne know that you are not fooled by his weak excuses.
We signed the "Faux fur for Queen's guards' caps" petition!
# 386:
2:40 pm PST, Dec 23,Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania
# 385:
9:07 am PST, Dec 12,Sadek Mennour, Algeria
I strongly beleive that killing black bears to get their skin for a mediocre purpose is a cruel and irresponsible behaviour that calls for repremanding . i have a word to Mr Des browne; Having no alternative does not give you the right to destroy nature , and it's your concern to find alternatives not bear's concern . with all my due respect i firmly disagree with you sir
# 384:
6:24 pm PST, Nov 17,Jasmin Rosales, Australia
# 383:
1:32 pm PST, Nov 17,Pamela Liang, New York
# 382:
3:49 am PDT, Nov 1,Alessandra Gandolfi, Italy
# 381:
9:23 pm PDT, Oct 10,Murry Cohen, Virginia
# 380:
2:38 pm PDT, Oct 1,Susan Holmes, United Kingdom
# 379:
8:47 pm PDT, Sep 29,Kim Harris, Oregon
# 378:
12:06 pm PDT, Sep 27,Yasiu Kruszynski, Poland
# 377:
9:35 pm PDT, Sep 26,F B, Belgium
# 376:
9:35 pm PDT, Sep 26,K V, Belgium
# 375:
9:35 pm PDT, Sep 26,I P, Belgium
# 374:
9:34 pm PDT, Sep 26,V C, Belgium
# 373:
9:34 pm PDT, Sep 26,F V, Belgium
# 372:
9:34 pm PDT, Sep 26,Roos Baert, Belgium
# 371:
2:10 pm PDT, Sep 25,Grace Fletcher, Ireland
What do you expect from a family thaat still believes in fox hunting, there sick and know no better as they are so in breed you can tell just to look at them they were never right in the head, and of course there puppets will do as they are asked and not question it in case they lose their jobs. This should be forced and made to set an exsample in the 21st century.
# 370:
12:56 pm PDT, Sep 22,Filomena Pereira, United Kingdom
# 369:
11:29 am PDT, Sep 17,Simos Tarabatzis, Greece
# 367:
4:55 am PDT, Sep 14,Forever Barbick, Illinois
# 366:
11:54 pm PDT, Sep 13,Marc Marroyen, Belgium
# 365:
11:53 pm PDT, Sep 13,Iryna Marroyen, Belgium
# 364:
2:28 am PDT, Sep 13,Laura Rodrigues, Portugal
# 363:
2:22 pm PDT, Sep 12,Mervi Rantala, Finland
# 362:
9:28 pm PDT, Sep 8,Shar Wilson, Canada
England will see none of my tourist dollars until the use of real fur as uniform embellishment is corrected.
*If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
*The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Ghandi (1869-1948)
*Kindness to all God's creatures is an absolute rock-bottom necessity if peace and righteousness are to prevail. Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940)
