Today, we submitted a formal complaint to the prime minister after Jeremy Quin, minister of state for defence procurement, broke the Ministerial Code by giving false statements to Parliament during a recent Westminster Hall debate about replacing the bearskins used for the Queen’s Guard’s caps… Read More »MoD Minister Made False Claims, Says PETA
Love Island star Faye Winter explains why she stripped off to demand the Queen’s Guard go faux. When I heard that the iconic tall black caps worn by the Queen’s Guard are made out of the fur of slaughtered bears, I was gobsmacked and horrified.… Read More »Why I Bared All for PETA
Ten world-renowned wildlife photographers have united to send a letter to Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace calling on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to stop using the fur of slaughtered black bears for ceremonial headgear: “As wildlife photographers who have spent our lives… Read More »The Only Way Bears Should Be Shot Is Through a Lens
With her body covered only by a teddy bear, Love Island star Faye Winter makes an eye-catching appeal in a new PETA campaign that urges the public, “Show a Bear How Much You Care”. Shot by fashion photographer Ruth Rose, the campaign asks the public… Read More »‘Love Island’ Star Faye Winter Supports PETA’s Faux Bear Fur in New Campaign
As part of our campaign calling on defence minister Ben Wallace, MP for Wyre and Preston North, to replace the bearskins used for the Queen’s Guard’s caps with faux fur, PETA is rolling an unmissable mobile billboard through his constituency. The billboard depict Wallace with… Read More »Have You Seen PETA’s New Billboards Calling Out the Defence Minister’s ‘BEAR-Faced Lies’?
After fending off zombies, outsmarting spies, and travelling through space on screen, actor, writer, and comedian Simon Pegg has a powerful new mission with PETA. In a poster campaign shot by renowned photographer Rankin, Pegg shows off the world’s first faux bear fur and urges… Read More »Simon Pegg Stars in New PETA Campaign
Today, PETA “spiders” were outside the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) headquarters in London to highlight the web of lies that defence minister Ben Wallace has spun around the suitability of the faux bear fur that we have helped create to replace the bearskins used for… Read More »PETA Is Untangling the Web of Lies Spun by the MoD
Faux Can Be the Future Although the faux fur matches the exact length of the real bearskin used on the Queen’s Guard’s caps, performs similarly in “water shedding” tests, and is 100% waterproof, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) disingenuously claims that no suitable non-animal alternative… Read More »PETA Calls Out Defence Secretary’s ‘Bear-Faced Lies’ With Massive Westminster Bridge Banner
