Boycott Body Shop Demos

by georgina Sat Apr 01, 2006 17:22

keep supporting the body shop, let's show these big companies that there is a huge market out there for cruelty free. i just found this on some website by peta

Recently, two pioneering makers of cruelty-free products—The Body Shop and Tom's of Maine—were acquired by large multinational companies—L'Oréal and Colgate, respectively. Caring consumers can send a message to the larger companies that cruelty-free products are good for business by continuing to buy The Body Shop and Tom's of Maine products—both companies have pledged to keep their strong policies against testing on animals.

PETA has a written communication from The Body Shop assuring us that the company's no-animal-tests policy will not change and that all its products will remain cruelty-free, and in a written statement, Tom's of Maine founders Tom and Kate Chappell assured customers, "You will continue to be able to rely on our tried and true Natural Care products based on our model of stewardship and sustainability. We will continue to make products without artificial preservatives, sweeteners, or dyes and without animal testing or animal ingredients."

Show Big Business That Buyers Want Compassion Across the Board

Invariably, when massive corporations buy smaller, more compassionate companies, the big companies learn from the smaller companies' success that consumers are concerned about things such as animal testing and cruelty to farmed animals. For example, Boca Foods, maker of vegetarian burgers and other vegetarian products, is now owned by hot dog giant Oscar Mayer; ConAgra owns faux-meat maker LightLife; and Dean Foods, the largest dairy products company in the world, owns White Wave, the maker of Silk soy milk and other nondairy products. These conglomerates' purchases of compassionate companies have caused humane products to become more widely promoted and sold than ever before. Mainstream America sees them and hears about them, which enables them to become more popular. Rather than turning our backs on trusted companies that are looking to expand their businesses and make their products available to caring customers everywhere, it is important that we continue to support these companies, which have rejected animal testing from the get-go.

Large corporations now recognize the expanding market of compassionate consumers who want cruelty-free food, cosmetics, and clothing. We're hopeful that the strong no-animal-testing policies of The Body Shop and Tom's of Maine will persuade Colgate and L'Oréal to permanently abandon animal tests once and for all.

What You Can Do

Please ask Colgate and L'Oréal to adopt the same compassionate standards as Tom's of Maine and The Body Shop:

Colgate-Palmolive Company
300 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-310-2000
212-310-2475 (fax)
Web form

L'Oréal USA, Inc.
575 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10017
212-818-1500
212-984-4999 (fax)
Web form

by Compassionate Shopper Wed Apr 19, 2006 15:21

I think that georginas comments are very niave opinion and I do not believe that L'Oreal will ever change their policies, for a company so big into getting more and more chemicals on the market and making more and more money how could they ever care about compassion? They, like so many other large animal testing companies are driven by profit and profit alone, they have no concern for animals. They are so sick they even used a rabbit in one of their ads and they blind rabbits for their products. I do not believe they will all of a sudden develop a conscience or compassion. They will simply 'swallow up' the body shop and the rumour mill (and yes I know they are rumours and we will all have to wait and see) is already predicting nasty things from the body shop courtesy of L'Oreal. Also consumers who continue to support the body shop are in effect giving their money to L'Oreal who in turn will pump it into vivisection as this is what they do. I would not buy from the body shop as I dont want my money in L'Oreals pocket to maim animals so they can produce 4,000 new chemicals a year, imagine how many animals they will maim and kill for those 4,000 chemicals?

As for colgate? Dogs dont use toothpaste, colgate experiments involve debarking dogs (so they dont bark and bother the poor vivisectors) and testing their disgusting tootpaste for breath freshness on the same dogs. How sick is that? You reckon they will change their policies? I dont think so. These companies have one thing in common and this is a very important factor in all this will they wont they change their policies question. The public dont know what goes on in these labs, the public dont know much if anything about animal tested products and they are all out there in their masses buying their toothpaste (which nobody would ever imagine was tested on dogs) and theyre shampoos (which people dont generally imagine involved blinding rabbits) and they just have no idea, no notion and as long as they continue to be naive they will continue to buy products from these companies. So why would these companies all of a sudden change their policy when animal testing is the quickest, easiest and most convenient way of getting new products out on the market and of course avoiding getting sued when somebody gets shampoo in their eye and has a bad reaction? When they put on the label harmful if swallowed or inhaled for example on a bottle of bleach it is because they have force fed the bleach to pups for example inside huntingdon life sciences (http://www.shac.net) so if a person swallows some bleach that person cannot sue them because they can say well we put it on the bottle and told you not to swallow it. The data collected from these experiments does nothing to help the person who has consumed the bleach as doctors in hospitals dont actually use the data from the animal experiments and instead go back through data from when people swallowed it. The same rule applies to any product containing chemicals (for which L'Oreal are notorious).

Dont be niave about these companies they care about profits, profits and more profits and they will never change their policies to not using chemicals in their products. Colgate (along with most toothpastes found in the supermarket) contains flouride which is a chemical and is being linked to numerous illnesses including hip fracture, cancer, and intellectual impairment - (http://www.fluoridation.com/calgaryh.htm)

Ask Jeeves - what is flouride

[Web Answer]
Flouride is a highly-toxic substance that can accumulate in the body and cause a variety of diseases.
Im afraid Toms of maine and the body shop will be swept away in the race to get as many products on the market in as short a time as possible and their own compassionate policies will be changed and even if they dont (which I dont believe is possible) their profits will still go to the companies who now own them and THEIR policies will never change as long as the general public remains naive as to what exactly they are buying. These companies will do anything to give themselves a clean and friendly image (like L'Oreal using a rabbit in an ad) and of coures NEVER let the public know how they get their products on the market in the first place and until laws change and public awareness changes it will continue in the same manner it always has and yes people want cruelty free - trouble is they dont know that the vast majority of products they are buying are NOT cruelty free. They dont know their shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, makeup, skin care etc etc etc are all animal tested (http://www.networkorganic.com/subsite/download.aspx?n=s...oding) by most of the large companies (http://www.buav.org).

MOST PEOPLE DONT EVEN OWN A CRUELTY FREE SHOPPING GUIDE (I recommend the shac one myself)
(http://www.navs.org) (http://www.irishantivivisection.org)

by Beth Wed Jun 21, 2006 17:28

Compassionate shopping needn't be difficult when you know which companies do have humane policies and which don't.

For a really easy to follow and comprehensive guide to personal and household cleaning products which don't neccesitate further animal suffering, I've found Naturewatch's Compassionate Shopping Guide is a must have. It's 80 pages long, packed full of information and only £2.50