| ScottS | 30 Jan 2017 7:42 a.m. PST |
PDF link Apparently this is real. My first thought was that it was a good parody, like "ISIS declares Fatwa Against Age of Sigmar." But this is on PETA's website…? link |
| FABET01 | 30 Jan 2017 7:46 a.m. PST |
Someone needs a serious reality check. |
| Pictors Studio | 30 Jan 2017 7:50 a.m. PST |
I love that the models drape themselves in human skin and human skulls but that it is the fur of wolves that gets their panties in a bunch. When I see  like this I always eat an extra burger. I guess I'll be stopping at McDonald's today while I wait to get my tire replaced. |
| The Hound | 30 Jan 2017 7:59 a.m. PST |
i am against fur, but this is stupid its just a game. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 30 Jan 2017 8:15 a.m. PST |
They came for GW figures, and I said nothing,because I was not a GW player. Then they came for my winged hussars. . . |
| PMC317 | 30 Jan 2017 8:16 a.m. PST |
This is beyond laughable. It's self parody. It's insane. |
Andy Skinner  | 30 Jan 2017 8:24 a.m. PST |
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 30 Jan 2017 8:46 a.m. PST |
PETA = People who Eat Tasty Animals. |
| Griefbringer | 30 Jan 2017 8:49 a.m. PST |
And I was expecting that they would object to GW using real sable hair in their paint brushes, but this seems not to be mentioned at all in the letter. (Granted, most of the GW brush range these days seems to have synthetic bristles, but some of their more expensive brushes still use sable hair.) |
 Dentatus   | 30 Jan 2017 9:17 a.m. PST |
I'm the 'Self-Parody' explanation. Activists who are too self-absorbed, self-important to see how ridiculous they look. |
| Landorl | 30 Jan 2017 10:01 a.m. PST |
So, they don't want you to have them as pets, so they kill them. That seems logical to me… Pretty soon we will start getting letters because we have models of soldiers riding horses! |
| ScottS | 30 Jan 2017 10:09 a.m. PST |
In the grim darkness of the future there are only mediated mutually beneficial solutions! |
| robert piepenbrink | 30 Jan 2017 10:21 a.m. PST |
So no more early hussars wearing wolf pelts, or later hussars with fur-trimmed pelisses, and of course those British and French Guard and grenadier regiments with bearskin shakos will have to go, not to mention calfskin packs and all the leatherwork. We can,perhaps, make a sort of last stand at horsehair plumes. Interestingly enough, GW makes figures holding severed human heads, but this evidently is acceptable. |
| Roderick Robertson | 30 Jan 2017 10:30 a.m. PST |
The letter shows too much knowledge of the WH40K Universe to be a "real" PETA letter. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 30 Jan 2017 11:02 a.m. PST |
"ISIS declares Fatwa Against Age of Sigmar" The one thing that could make me drink the Koolaid. |
| Patrick Sexton | 30 Jan 2017 11:31 a.m. PST |
Whether or not the 40K letter was real or not, the incident with the girl's dog is yet more evidence of PETA's hypocritical and evil agenda. |
| M C MonkeyDew | 30 Jan 2017 8:31 p.m. PST |
In the Dark Future there are only Naked Mole Rats |
| Coelacanth1938 | 30 Jan 2017 8:37 p.m. PST |
We have PETA here in Las Vegas and they're insane. My own brother is partial to this group's beliefs and he now wants to 'inspect' my figures. |
 javelin98 | 30 Jan 2017 11:58 p.m. PST |
Nice to see PETA gaining speed in their race to complete and utter irrelevance. I honestly thought this was an article in The Onion. But no, they're doing a good enough job mocking themselves that they don't need any help. |
| Dn Jackson | 31 Jan 2017 12:30 a.m. PST |
Don't take them seriously at your own risk. Ringling Brothers won a suit against them for lying about abuse of circus animals. Yet Ringling is closing and they're still around. |
| Puster | 31 Jan 2017 4:12 a.m. PST |
When I look at unethical behaviour of the various factions in 40k, wearing fur would not be my first issue to complain. Well, priorities… Actually I believed this to be a fake to slander Peta when I first heard about it. My new guess is that they are infiltrated :-) |
| (Major Disaster) | 31 Jan 2017 8:59 a.m. PST |
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| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 31 Jan 2017 12:45 p.m. PST |
Seriously? Dear Lord these people need a reality check. I have to say that animal rights activists can off the ideological deep end. On a semi-serious note, why aren't they picking on other media depictions of fur? I'm sure they're are high profile artists and writers who depict fur in their works… Oh wait they would be criticised with attempting to supress freedom of expression (rightly IMO – and just becuase your GW designer doesn't mean your not allowed that right)! It looks real enough, though the whole website looks a bit shonky, and clearly written by someone who knows 40K. My first assumption was that it was a parent having a 'won't somebody think of the children' exposed to images of fur moment. Now, entirely un-seriously, I can't help wondering if a current/former player joined up because of a girl or wanting to meet girls? Becuase that kind of organisation has a gender bias that is the opposite of most gaming groups (at least in the UK)? |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 01 Feb 2017 12:57 p.m. PST |
Story got reported on BBC Radio 4's Today Program this morning (can't give a US equivalent) – must of been a slow news day. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 01 Feb 2017 2:33 p.m. PST |
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| MKGipson | 01 Feb 2017 5:27 p.m. PST |
I need to create a Space Marine chapter called "The Emperor's Seal Clubbers"… |
| Mithmee | 01 Feb 2017 6:28 p.m. PST |
Remember this is GW that they are going up against, which can be almost as Evil. But for this I am on GW side. |
