A company I worked for
was excessive about animal rights to the point of advising their minimum wage staff to wear coats and scarves in the shop and jump around to keep warm while they kept the door open all year round to let the smell entice people into the store.

They'd make a huge fuss about animal welfare and how all forms of animal testing was cruel, going so far as to say that it was wrong for medicinal reasons. Granted I'd never agree with it for cosmetics purposes, but animal testing has kept a lot of people I care about for a long time.

They donate money to animal right protester groups who have the sole intention of abusing others who are trying to do their jobs within animal research.

The final straw came for me when they said that animal shelters who put to sleep very aggressive animals or those who had been in cages for a long time with no hope of rehoming. I'd rather have them put to sleep than watch them slowly go insane through being in a cage 24 hours a day, or attack someone.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 18:50, 7 replies)

What really gets me
is that the reality is: the animals used for testing were born and raised in captivity. If released, they would not be able to fend for themselves. So my thought is, those activists need to be dropped off in the middle of nowhere to fend for themselves for a few weeks before they start demanding the release of animals used for testing. Let's see how well they fare without shelter and easy access to food.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 19:25, closed)

Which company
Is that?
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:37, closed)

If I had to guess:
I'd guess The Body Shop, or possibly Lush (sometimes I doubt they actually know how to close their doors, as the soapy fug freely rolls forth like a cloud of doom to incapacitate passing pedestrians).

Whoever it is, there's hypocrisy in obsessing about thoretical animal welfare abuse, whilst ignoring the welfare of your employees (who, and I mean this kindly, are also animals).

Letting the smell out doesn't save fluffeh bunnehs from harm, but letting the cold air in can violate established staff H+S legislation (16c legal minimum workplace temperature*).

* 13c for manual work, which lifting shampoo definitely isn't.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 6:36, closed)

Well the Body Shop
is now owned by Loreal - a delicious hypocrisy in itself one might note.

Therefore my moneys on Lush...
(Burt Burt, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 12:43, closed)

Legitimate protests I have no problem with
But you know why sometimes animal rights people are hit with anti-terror laws? Because some of the things they have done ARE practically terrorism.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:09, closed)

There is no practically about it.
They are using fear of physical violence to achieve their aims.

One group actually dug up the remains of the mother of the owner of a guinea pig farm. That is fucked up beyond belief.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:49, closed)

See also: blowing up innocent research workers' cars, etc.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 23:44, closed)