Wednesday 10th November
Day 203
I didn’t know this till tonight - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds came into being because a small group of Victorian women started a campaign against the killing of birds for their feathers which were used to adorn hats. I like their tactics - go to church on Sunday, notice the women whose hats were furred and feathered, write them a letter the next day -
‘Do you realise birds from fifteen different species were killed so that you can wear your hat? And that a brood of babies was deprived of their mother?’
They were the first ornithological suffragettes. Waking us up to the real cost of fashion. I wonder if in 2010 we have gone back to sleep.....
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