Earlier this month, PETA penned an open letter asking Hunters & Collectors to change their band name to a more animal-friendly option.
It was a cheeky, non-serious request, made to draw attention to the agonising slaughter of thousands of Australian waterbirds during duck hunting season, but it was met with scorn by many, who felt that PETA had gone too far.
Last night on Q&A, Hunters & Collectors frontman Mark Seymour was asked about the request – and no, they won’t be making the change, but they “won’t be shooting ducks either”.
“What they were doing was drawing attention to the fact that this activity takes place in Victoria for three months and it starts in the middle of March”, Seymour said. “And it appears that they’ve been quite successful in drawing attention to that fact.”
Read the original letter below the Q&A footage, and why not start picketing Eskimo Joe to adopt a more PC name while you’re at it? Now, that could be fun.
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