Boycott Lush Cosmetics - this loathsome company are funding hunt saboteurs

[David Stocker]

A Dorset (Poole) cosmetics company called Lush with an international network of retailers have announced that they are going to fund hunt saboteurs. The story was in the UK Guardian on Saturday, and I’ve posted it below. The idea that a legitimate company is going to fund violent thugs who dress like paramilitaries and hide their identities under hoods and behind full-face balaclavas is outrageous.

Guardian 3.10.09
Lush bubble bath to support hunt saboteur campaign
Paul Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 3 October 2009 00.56 BST
The cosmetics company Lush is launching a bubble bath it hopes will raise tens of thousands of pounds for anti-blood sports activists who sabotage fox hunts.
The Hunt Saboteurs Association will be the latest beneficiary of proceeds from Lush, the ethical producer of handmade soaps which has gained a reputation for backing radical protest groups.
The citronella and peppermint bubble bath, called The Fabulous Mr Fox, will arrive on the shelves in the coming weeks and will be on sale until Boxing Day, a traditional day for fox hunts. The company hopes the product will raise £50,000 for the activists, and said they money will be used to fund vehicles and video equipment.
Mark Constantine, the 59-year-old co-founder of Lush, which is based in Poole, Dorset, has previously donated large portions of his profits to human rights groups, animal welfare organisations and environmental protesters such as Plane Stupid, who promote non-violent civil disobedience to opposed airport expansion.
Proceeds from the Lush cosmetics empire, which is thought to be worth around £150m, have also been used to fund campaigns to support Sumatran orangutans and oppose the widening of the M1 motorway. Sea Shepherd, a guerilla conservation group that operates vessels to scupper rival ships it finds whaling in the middle of the ocean, has received £22,000 from the sale of Lush products.
Lush, founded by Constantine in 1995, has become a multinational company, with branches in north America, Japan and Australia.
The company claims to give around 2% of profits to charity and is keen to promote itself as an ethical brand. Constantine said funding activists groups was "central to what we do".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oc...hunt-saboteurs

The Lush website is at https://www.lush.co.uk/index.php

The company also support an animal rights (not animal welfare) organization called Animal Aid which is hostile to shooting, and PeTA who are hostile to angling - look at Lush Limited’s Causes on their Facebook pages). Let me suggest that our families should all boycott this loathsome company and its products.

You might wish to write to the major local papers serving Poole, the Dorset Echo [e-mail] , and the Bournemouth Echo [e-mail] , or,indeed to post on Lush’s Facebook pages at http://www.facebook.com/lush.co.uk?ref=mf

[Vexed Foxy]

Are we suprised by this, the odd thing is that they sell soap, shampoo, do we know of any unshaven hairy armpitted female sabs that use soap?

Or dirty piss ridden male ones? I don't

This is of course is a generalisation, but then apparently we are all chinless, toffs who went to Eton with Boris and call me Dave Cameron.

[Vexed Foxy]

They also supported the Plane Stupid action at Stanstead airport.

Odd they have a shop in the kings road and no doubt sell to a lot of what a laughingly call Chelsea Tractors owners, these guys would do well to remember the old addage 'if you live in a glass house don't trow stone'

[Vexed Foxy]

On the up side, dirty Sabs will be in the Kings road buying soap and not bothering us out hunting this weekend, every cloud has a silver lining.

[Vexed Foxy]

We could of course all stuff a bloody fox tail through the letter box of every lush store?

No No that would be silly, or send them a road killed badger in a box.

Freeze it first so it thaws out nicely by the time it gets there.

More foxes are killed by cars than hunts.........so er ban the car, what happens if a car driver enjoys driving and yet kills a fox...........is that illegal.

[David Stocker]

Facebook now has a group called Boycott Lush Cosmetics

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=10630&post=47442&ui...

[Vexed Foxy]

What a bunch of fucking morons they are, I wonder what happens if you work for them but are pro hunting?

We had a lady here who as anti shooting and hunting she left, but only because our outllok on life was so different, I would not work in a vegan shop and I guess not many vegans are butchers?

[Hopper]

I've seen these soaps. And I was puzzled by the design... it's a blood-red hound paw print on a white background. Which, I suppose, makes a bit of sense. But it's almost like it's blaming the hounds. And nobody should blame the hounds, they're just doing what they're bred to do.

Plus what sort of sadistic bastard wants to wash with a bloody paw-printed soap?

(unless I'm mistaken and they thought it was a fox-print... but I'm fairly certain it was hound shaped)

I never buy anything from Lush anyway as it's all over-priced and rubbish.

[Hopper]

Also, I'm not against people raising funds for causes they believe in... but why not the RSPCA or something similar? Why the sabs??

[Vexed Foxy]

Yes indeed why fund agricultural terrorists, we have an excellent rural museum near hear that for a few years on big show days had CIWF (Compassion in World Farming) stand i wrote a fairly strong letter that CIWF attacked the very people museum where trying to attract and oddly they have not been there since! No idea if they banned them or it was just but chance but it makes me feel good.