Protest The Slaughter Of Black Bears For British Vanity

My letter to the Independent UK, followed by their article on the British and Canadian return to one of their longstanding atrocities. Add your voice, send a letter to the Independent UK!

TLC

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Dear Editor,

The barbarity of slaughtering innocent black bears, one of God's many beautiful creatures, for the bloated vanity of the British military, the same belligerent force that has long seen its role as subjugating others, serves as a shining example of why much of the rest of the world holds the west in such low esteem.

Sincerely,

Terry L. Clark

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Hundreds of black bears face slaughter after Army abandons trial of synthetic fur for Guards' ceremonial headgear

[A]s the Queen takes the salute to mark her 80th birthday celebrations this morning, some 4,000 miles away a group of hunters will be preparing to go into the dense woodlands of Canada and kill an Ursus americanus or Canadian black bear.

If the animal is fortunate, it will die quickly from a shot to the head before having its head and paws severed as trophies and the skin sold to a fur auctioneer. In the past five years alone, 494 of those pelts have been sold at a cost of £321,000 to a long-standing customer of the Canadian fur industry - the British Ministry of Defence.

Full Article, Independent UK, June 17, 2006