Expensive Bear Skins

So the guards big hats that come in at around 2K each and are made from actual Canada Bears fur.
To reduce costs and save bears the pressure group PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) would like them to use faux fur in future. However MOD "sources" say that such a replacement material has yet to be properly developed.

"The MoD said: “We are open to exploring faux fur alternatives if they pass the necessary requirements." However, the ministry spokesman said a fake fur version would have to satisfy "safety and durability considerations" and that "no alternative has met all those criteria to date".

Soaring cost of King’s Guards' real fur bearskin caps revealed

Bearskin caps worn by soldiers outside Buckingham Palace cost more than £2,000 each, says MOD.

www.bbc.co.uk

So do we maintain tradition or use something else and will the general public who only watch the trooping of the colour on their TV's even notice that a change of material has been used?

 

[muttywhitedog]

Could they not use badger skins instead?
I saw three dead ones on the way to work last week.

Nope. You saw the same one pretending to be dead three times

(Its what we used to tell the kids when we saw a dead badger)

 

[Allflapnofly]

...."Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' Badgers!"....