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Canadian Mounties Send PETA-Style Idiots Into Frenzy With 1 Wardrobe Change

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A few years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bowed to the demands of liberal animal activists who threw a fit because RCMP officers were wearing muskrat hats. Now, the RCMP is reversing that decision.

Why? Because of the most obvious reason of the century: it gets cold in Canada– like, really cold.

When the RCMP decided to stop using real muskrat fur in their hats, they switched to a synthetic material to appease PETA-like animal activists. However, the police ran into a problem with the material. Namely, it doesn’t keep them warm.

Deutsche Welle reported that after field tests, the RCMP found that “artificial fur did not stand up to exposure to the elements (particularly rain), or provide the same level of warmth in extreme winter conditions.”

In other words, the fake fur doesn’t work in real-life environments.

Because of this, the RCMP put in a order for 5,000 hats for their officers. Of course, animal activists are having a fit because each hat requires three muskrat pelts.

That brings the grand total of muskrats needed to 15,000.

“Canada’s trapping laws allow for unimaginable cruelty,” Camille Labchuk, executive director of Animal Justice, a Canadian animal law advocacy organization, told DW.

Wide Open Spaces, however, contends this is a “gross mischaracterization, if not an outright lie.”

“Modern muskrat trapping is a very efficient endeavor, with traps and methods usually killing the animals quickly and humanely as possible.”

The trap research coordinator for the Fur Institute of Canada, Pierre Canac Marquis, says that over the years, methods for trapping and killing these muskrats have dramatically improved, and that hunters use a “rotating jaw trap akin to ‘a big mouse trap’ that snaps the animal’s spine, killing it in ‘withing seconds,'” reports Deutsche Welle.

In addition, a Conservative member of the Canadian Parliament prides himself in the fact that Canadian’s have long history of fur trapping.

“The fur trade heritage is something we should be very proud of,” he says, “Anything we can do to protect and defend the fur trade, I support.”

He then voiced his support for the RCMP muskrat hats by proclaiming, “The RCMP, by wearing muskrat hats, is showing solidarity with the communities they live in. It would be a very bad signal to the fur trade for the RCMP to abandon the muskrat hat.”

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Liberal snowflake animal activists can whine and complain about the deaths of muskrats all they want, but in the end, it’s not going to warm up any of the RCMP who are out in frigid weather as they perform their sworn duties, protecting the residents of Canada.

We are glad to see the RCMP reverse their decision, despite the backlash. I’m sure its officers are thankful as well.

H/T Wide Open Spaces

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Steven is a former writer for The Western Journal and has written hundreds of stories for both Western Journal and Conservative Tribune. He is a follower of Jesus, husband to an amazing wife and father to two beautiful girls.
Steven is a former writer for the Western Journal and has written dozens of stories for both Western Journal and Conservative Tribune. Steven is a native of Louisiana but has transferred to a remote desert land often referred to as Arizona. He has a beautiful wife and two amazing daughters. You can often find him hiking the Arizona landscape or serving on the worship team at his church.
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Shreveport, LA
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B.S. Church Ministries with a specialization in Church Planting and Revitalization
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Phoenix, AZ
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English
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Politics, Culture, Faith




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