LUSH, this is not what I want my money to support - and I have been an avid supporter of your company. Here are just a sample of their posts about it: Rather than engaging in a dialogue with them - as is the appropriate response from an organization whose actual agenda is to educate the public - CompassionWorks International deleted all the comments they disagreed with, reveling in the ‘battle’ with evil zookeepers, and then blocking anyone who dared to try to do any education on or related to their page. Needless to say, zoo staff around the world were pretty upset by this misrepresentation of the ethos of good, modern zoos, and tried to contact their page to do education about how AZA-accredited zoos are the leaders in conservation projects around the world. While the rest of us were learning from a close-up view of a natural process we’d never get to see otherwise, CompassionWorks International posted this: In fact, their webpage declares that they exist to do battle against “the circus, the rodeo, marine mammal confinement, zoos, horse racing, trophy hunting, factory farming and other industries that put dollars ahead of lives.” I commend LUSH’s commitment to moving away from animal testing, but what the support of this wholly unprofessional non-profit dedicated to misleading the public in support of an anti-science, anti-conservation agenda - loses the company my support, and I hope, yours. I am pretty damn angry at LUSH this morning, because one of the organizations they are currently running a Charity Pot for - CompassionWorks International - has spent the day purposefully slandering and lambasting all conservation efforts done by any and every zoo. The LUSH Charity Pot that supports an organization that straight-up lies about successful conservation efforts to push their agenda.
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