Headwear with real feathers should never be encouraged

LIU GUIJUAN, a Peking opera actress from Tianjin and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Tianjin Committee, recently showed off headwear made of the feathers taken from about 80 live kingfishers, most of which subsequently died.. Comments:

The days when people could cruelly use animal products, such as ivory, tiger bones and bear galls, without censure are gone. Today there are artificial substitutes that can be used; this is progress. To take feathers from live birds, killing most of them in the process, is evil; let's give it up.

Zhao Zhongxiang, a domestic TV anchor, via a Sina micro blog April 25