There seems to be a lot of poppy problems leading up to this year’s Remembrance Day.

Firstly FIFA, the international governing soccer body, banned the English soccer team from wearing embroidered poppies in a friendly match against Spain because FIFA, as an organization does not allow religious, political or commercial messages to be worn. Britain protested furiously and FIFA relented and allowed players to wear embroidered poppies on black armbands.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto also banned employees from wear poppies because any kind of adornment or accessories is against the hotel’s dress code.

If you allow one symbol shouldn’t you allow every kind is the thought process of Tim Terceira, general manager of the hotel, whose mother died of cancer. Yet he’s not protesting to wear the ribbon he said. The decision was also reversed by Terceira and employees were allowed to wear poppies.

Now McDonalds has banned its employees from wearing the poppy while on duty for a much different reason – safety. People are afraid the straight pin will fall in the food. It’s not a lack of support or respect, said McDonalds Canada.

Yet there are still people outraged by the decision despite its reasons.

While there’s no quick fix for the first two scenarios due to them having to do with religion, politics and policies, there could be a quick fix for the last one, a way to make sure a something like that needn’t happen again.

Change the design of the poppy’s pin, not the flower itself, just the straight pin. That way it wouldn’t be able to fall out. Create a barb pin with a back. That way back can’t slip over the barbs and the pin won’t be able to fall out.