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Remember the hunt saboteur attack on a fly fishery in Lancashire in 2006? If not, the story’s here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/t...e-colours.htmlWell, get this, 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 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-saboteursThe 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 our old enemy PeTA - 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
newsdesk@dorsetecho.co.uk , and the Bournemouth Echo
newsdesk@bournemouthecho.co.uk , or,indeed to post on Lush’s Facebook pages at
http://www.facebook.com/lush.co.uk?ref=mf
