2006-10-17 12:41:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) produces the white poppy (I've just received my order of ten). This is from the PPU's website.
White Poppy - origins
The idea of an alternative poppy dates back to 1926, just a few years after the red poppy came to be used in Britain. A member of the No More War Movement suggested that the British Legion should be asked to imprint 'No More War' in the centre of the red poppies and failing this pacifists should make their own flowers.
In 1933 the Co-operative Women's Guild produced the first white poppies to be worn on Armistice Day (later called Remembrance Day). The Guild stressed that the white poppy was not intended as an insult to those who died in the First World War - a war in which many of the women lost husbands, brothers, sons and lovers. The following year the Peace Pledge Union joined the CWG in the distribution of the poppies and later took over their annual promotion.
I hope this is useful.
2006-10-18 23:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The white poppy is worn, just as the red poppy, for Remembrance Day; the difference being that it "emphasises a desire for peaceful alternatives to military action" (source: Wikipedia) and was first produced by the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
There are also links on the wikipedia white poppy page to take you to the organisation that sells the white poppy these days but when I tried to follow the link my screen froze (but then, my computer is on a go-slow this evening).
2006-10-17 13:02:58 · answer #2 · answered by janebfc 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Peace!
2006-10-17 13:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
you get opium from it. When the opium is smoked one feels all peaceful...apparently. White poppy = peace.
2006-10-17 12:45:40 · answer #4 · answered by B E R N I E 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋