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.html

Well, 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-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 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

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cumbriafishingfestival.co.uk

they are nothing short of TERRORISTS BEING FUNDED BY A TERRORIST SUPPORT COMPANY .

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

As they do, so should they be done to - only a flaming sight harder!

The cops won't do anything till the day one of these idiots gets killed.

Would be the pervert-loving, Left-wing Guardian, I wish rent-a-scum would turn up at our place

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Naive tw*ts. No bloody idea these do-gooders. No idea whatsoever. Moreover, this sounds like little more than a blatant publicity stunt as Tarquin and Clarissa are probably finding money a little too tight at the moment to splash out on 'ethical soap' dahling. I'm a great believer in karma - what goes around and all that...

Oh and I assume all the employees of Lush are vegetarians who don't wear leather shoes? Yeah right.

Eh? - its Lush that's doing this, the original poster found out about it in the Guardian Don't worry, I expect the Daily Mail will catch on eventually....

As for Lush I usually get my missus some stuff from there at Christmas and Birthdays - never again, the f*ckwits

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While I deplore the action and its aims,It falls on deaf ears where action of anglers are concerned,yes a few are willing to do something, but the many read and as it doesnt effect them directly,BUT could indirectly and then directly in the future,carry on as normal.

It is well worth starting to realise it is a serious threat to our sport and while I hold some points of a downwards nature, for the likes of AT and other governing bodies,the fact is they do need supporting to offer an argument and represent us and our sport.

Caring by way of words and reading wont help but raise the argument to support our sport im afraid.

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Kevin

Anglers will just have to get some placards and stand outside a few of their outlets........

"LUSH TEST SOAP ON BEAGLE PUPS EYES"

"5 LABRADORS DIE TO MAKE ONE BAR OF LUSH SOAP"

"LUSH SPONSOR DEATH SQUADS IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES"

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story...........

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Thats what they want people to think. I'm not falling for it. They're just another in a long line of minority action groups and they won't carry any clout politically until such time as there is a public groundswell against angling - which there isn't. While there is no public appetite for it, no major political parties have any reason to latch on to it as a cause. In fact the main parties know full well that it would be a vote loser, not a vote winner. Banning a few fox hunters is one thing, banning millions of fishermen is something entirely different. The more panicked and upset we get about it the more the antis will think they are winning the battle. In fact I suggest we stop this thread here, since its just giving air time to their cause.

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