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Are you boycotting Lush?

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MookySpinge · 15/10/2009 13:37

I am, but wondered what the rest of you think of their decision to support Hunt Sabs - feel it is on a par with any other terrorist group personally. Should probably do a link but iPhone is behaving badly at the moment.

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listenglisten · 15/10/2009 13:39

I did see this in their window this morning and wondered how many people might boycott them. Personally I support what they are doing but I did think it was a strange thing for them to do.

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:41

I won't be boycotting them. Unless HuntSabs start putting bombs under people's cars, which afaik they haven't yet. Why are they on a par with any other terrorist group? Have they killed anybody?

treaclespongeofdeath · 15/10/2009 13:41

Erm... have I missed something? I thought hunting was illegal now?

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:42

Oh they just hunt the fox with dogs and then shoot it apparently treacle, they have to have their fun you know.

treaclespongeofdeath · 15/10/2009 13:44

Unless the HuntSabs are targeting drag hunts, which would indeed be very odd of them...

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MookySpinge · 15/10/2009 13:44

Yes a man was killed recently, the issue isn't whether hunting is within the law or not but the terrorist activity of sabs.

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treaclespongeofdeath · 15/10/2009 13:45

Sorry, x-post. That is utterly daft. Why bother banning it at all if you're going to allow that?

treaclespongeofdeath · 15/10/2009 13:47

Odd. Very odd. Can't believe it's a sound marketing decision to support any extremist group, no matter what their cause is.

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:49

Link please?

Hunt Sabs wouldn't be doing it if hunting wasn't going on, so of course hunting is the issue .

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:49

Link please to man killed? A man murdered by Hunt Sabs? Need link?

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MookySpinge · 15/10/2009 13:50

They disrupt legal hunting on the off chance that it might be a front for illegal hunting - but anyway, if they want to support animal welfare charities these are hardly the people are they?

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pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:51

Link please to man killed to make them on a par with any other terrorist group?

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:52

They disrupt legal hunting as legal hunting makes a mockery of the law in the first place.

crumpet · 15/10/2009 13:53

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161700/At-controls-First-picture-hunt-saboteur-charged-murder-hunt -supporter-decapitated-gyrocopter.html this might be the one

wannaBe · 15/10/2009 13:55

why would anyone buy from them in the first place? Can't even walk past their shops without feeling physically sick. Can't imagine how anyone can work there, they must have a permanent headache from the smell..

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MookySpinge · 15/10/2009 13:57

www.thetrevormorsememorialfund.co.uk/

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pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:57

yes thanks crumpet just found that by googling. Man charged with murder, quite rightly. That does not make the whole organisation on a par with 'any other Terrorist group' The Taliban? The IRA? Please.

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 13:59

Feel very sorry for the man involved, obviously.

Hope you are all boycotting Nestle.

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 14:00

And in light of that incident, yes, I think it is wrong of Lush to support them.

QueenOfFrighteningEveryone · 15/10/2009 14:03

A hunt saboteur has been charged with murder but not found guilty yet afaik.

As I understand it, the deceased man followed the gyrocopter to an airfield and approached it whilst it was moving along the taxiway. He was then fatally injured by a rotating tailblade.

pofacedandproud · 15/10/2009 14:04

Murder is different to manslaughter though. They must have evidence it was murder [video evidence I think]

PuppyMonkey · 15/10/2009 14:04

I will boycott Lush if you like. But only cos I can't stand the bleddy smell in there.

Purplebuns · 15/10/2009 14:16

I don't support extremists, but pro-hunters are bound to make sabs, sound as bad as they can. Is this also a post to see who is pro-hunting?
Also Lush, I am assuming wouldn't give more support to sabs now if there wasn't anything more untoward going on with pro-hunt?

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MookySpinge · 15/10/2009 14:29

I suppose it's partly a post to see whether it is possible, pro or anti hunting, to consider how we feel about Lush supporting this particular organisation. I would not in a million years have thought of hunt sabs as animal welfare people.

You don't have to be anti-abortion to disapprove of the actions of some of the more extreme pro-lifers for example.

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Purplebuns · 15/10/2009 15:06

If Lush wasn't using this as a publicity stunt then they would have given support in a much more subtle way. Imo.

I resent that they could be using such a contentious issue, just to profit from it.

However, I also admire the risk they could presumabably be taking. And I respect anyone who is willing to speak up about their opinions, in face of controversy.

As for their choice in organisation, being against animal testing is widely accepted.

And I say risk before, but, any publicity is good publicity.