Posts Tagged ‘MoD’

  • 28
  • Jul

It’s Time for the MoD to Embrace Faux Fur

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) recently released a statement claiming that for the past several years, the skins used to make The Queen’s Guards’ distinctive bearskin caps now come from brown bears, not black ones. Sometime during the course of PETA’s campaign, they say, a switch was made.

One might well ask, “So what?” It is unlikely that bears care what colour they are when they are being shot for their hides, and it makes no difference to PETA if the MoD are using the skins from black, brown or,… Read more.


  • 26
  • May

Bodypainted Lucy Clarkson Tells the New Coalition Government, ‘Bears Deserve a Change Too!’

It wouldn’t surprise me if we had a sudden influx of new MPs, national media photographers and even Queen’s Guards signing up to back the bearskins campaign after this amazing photo call, organised by PETA’s Mimi Bekhechi, yesterday!

The beautiful model Lucy Clarkson (a former Lara Croft model, no less) drew huge crowds on Westminster Bridge at lunchtime when she wore little more than a bodypainted uniform and a faux-fur cap to protest the continued killing of Canadian bears to make the ornamental caps… Read more.