The Animal rights group PETA have asked the company that make the Warhammer games to remove pelt from their miniatures.
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2017/01/peta-asks-gw-toremove-fur-grimdark.html
The ridiculous request has been meet with laughter (here is the discussion on PETA's own website ) as the Warhammer 40,000 game is played in a rather dystopian sci fi-universe, described in the original rulebook like this:
and
"There is no time for peace. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only WAR."
Worrying about the bad influence of sculpted pelt in lead and plastic miniatures, seem a bit crazy when considering the same miniatures also wear severed heads and sometimes even human pelt!
On a more solemn note: PETA is not the only organisation that feel they should stop evil even before it has been thought. The idea that it is somehow necessary to control other peoples minds is spreading like a wildfire, both on the left and right of the political spectrum.
Sadly I have this feeling that the further we move away from 1939-1945 in time the more this mentality gain ground. PETA's request is just a symptom of something far more chilling.
Image of Space Wolf hero with wolf fur. Found here.
