Get out of my hobby, PETA

Careful Raven, they might come after you for anthropomorphizing birds and making light of their plight!

I guess the painter of this award-winning model would be considered trash by PETA due to the massive wolf pelt, even though it's an exceptional example of skill.

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They're right about this though

This statement is true only for some regions. I have seen couple of fur farms irl and it makes me sad when all that people know about them is from movies showed by PETA and similar organizations that were probably recorded in china or some 3rd world countries...

Also they believe animal farms are far more brutal than what goes on in Warhammer and Warhammer 40k.

That depends a lot on what kind of farming. Factory farming is a cruel and horrible example of mankind's inhumanity, but small-time or organic, free-range, etc farms are a very different kind.

Besides which, I'm still not sure if people living a bleak meat-grinder existence in the majority of 40k and not much better off in Warhammer Fantasy would agree:P

Now I don't want to trivialise some of the dreadful treatment of animals in the real world. I'm not a vegetarian but I only eat meat if I know where it came from - I'm from a rural background and I'm not comfortable with how a lot of processed meat is produced.

But I really think that PETA should familiarise themselves with some of the things that go in Warhammer (settings notorious for their excessive grimness and darkness) before making such claims.

Canon lore I'd like to cite from WH40k rule books and novels;

The populations of entire planets being dismembered by the followers of Khorne in order to collect blood for the blood God and skulls for his skull throne.

Fabius Bile performing horrific medical experiments on thousands of human captives in order to produce 'new men' warriors - usually doing so in order to receive thousands more human captives as payment and perform even more medical experiments on them.

Chapters of brave, compassionate and heroic Sisters of Battle being butchered by the 'good guys' in order to use their blood to produce mildly daemon resistant armour.

Dark Eldar and followers of Slaanesh using the populations of entire worlds to satiate their dreadful desires, which generally involve finding unmentionable new and perverse ways to make other creatures suffer. Unless you are reading novels from the Black Library range - in which case they are mentioned but you won't appreciate it...

Use of daemonhosts by radical members of the inquisition. In which typically unwilling daemons are bound within typically unwilling humans in order to be used as a source of information - with the pissed off daemons making sure their 'hosts' suffer terribly in return for the indignity for the decades or even centuries of their captivity.

The fate of the majority of human psychics throughout the Imperium - collected in the dreadful Black Ships and when not found strong enough to resist the taints and temptations of chaos either lobotomised and modified to serve as crude weapons and communication devices or used as fuel for the Golden Throne, life support machine of the Emperor of Mankind.

And so on and so forth...

And that in addition to my previous comments regarding the majority of 'furs' in the setting being taken from genetically modified humans or alien death beasts rather than animals according to the lore. And the remainder worn by some specific character generally being described as being taken from some terrible murderous beast after mortal combat somewhere in the fiction - rather than coming from an animal farm.

I'm not saying any of that is right - just that PETA are in danger of really making themselves look like complete tits on this one.. Maybe even more than usual...

I dub thee SG's official Spokesowl!