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2017/01/30 13:10:22
Subject: PETA ask GW to bann fur
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Jordano:
PETA have fired off a letter to Games Workshop CEO Kevin Rountree asking that the miniatures giant ban "fur" garments from all Warhammer characters.
"From the mighty Leman Russ and Horus Lupercal to Chaos Warriors and the Sisters of Silence, Warhammer features an abundance of characters who wear what appear to be animal pelts, which just doesn't add up", the group says in the letter. "These battle-hardened warriors are known for their martial prowess – but wearing the skins of dead animals doesn't take any skill."
Animals killed for their fur are typically kept in tiny, filthy wire cages before being electrocuted, drowned, or even skinned alive. Or they may be trapped in the wild by horrific bone-crushing steel-jaw traps – which often leave them languishing for days before they eventually die of hunger, thirst, or blood loss.
And even though Warhammer characters are fictional, PETA (whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to wear") notes in the letter that "draping them in what looks to be a replica of a dead animal sends the message that wearing fur is acceptable – when, in fact, it has no more place in 2017 than it would in the year 40,000".
This post was no spam or trolling, it's real satire!
https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/animal-rights-group-peta-calls-for-warhammer-fur-clothing-ban
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/1653
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2017/01/30 13:14:14
Subject: PETA ask GW to bann fur
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Rogue Inquisitor with Xenos Bodyguards
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If true, do they not realize that the characters actually went hunting, and killed the animals in the wild for their pelts and furs? Likely also ate the meat too when done skinning.
I am a member of P.E.T.A. = People Eating Tasty Animals. 
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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
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2017/01/30 13:15:26
Subject: PETA ask GW to bann fur
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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2017/01/30 13:16:08
Subject: PETA ask GW to bann fur
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Grizzled Space Wolves Great Wolf
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2017/01/30 13:19:12
Subject: PETA ask GW to bann fur
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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Wow this is real. How stupid.
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2017/01/30 13:20:34
Subject: PETA ask GW to bann fur
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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