Comments on: LUSH’S ETHICAL HYPOCRISY EXPOSED IN OTTAWA

By: Ericnwright

Ericnwright — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:49:00 +0000

So do you have an opinion on what I wrote or do you wish to just call me a name?

By: Eweiss

Eweiss — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:35:00 +0000

If the world could run on your sense of self-satisfaction, it wouldn’t need oil.

By: Deb Mclellan59

Deb Mclellan59 — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:11:00 +0000

I will never step foot inside there shop ever again and will go out of my way to spread the word about what they have done. My Alberta money will be spent on Alberta OIL.

By: John Brown

John Brown — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:36:00 +0000

Neil- Good job buddy! Im sure the Islamists just love to hear ignorant westerners like you stand up for them. They are high fiving and congratulating each other on winning another dupe…They treat women like SHIT!!!! THATS IT!

Go there and check it out….Its terrible…

Irans people and their leadership are two different things. Read the book “we are Iran”…for starters….

I take it you haven’t ever been to that part of the world…….So sad….

By: Eric Neil Wright

Eric Neil Wright — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:06:00 +0000

This protest is offensive, an insult to the reader’s intelligence and indicative of a highly unethical strategy of political campaign. The entire strategy of your group depends on perpetuating a massive generalization about women in the “petrocracies”. No one would deny that womens’ rights in different parts of the world are not the same as they are in Canada, but you assume that these countries are one monolithic bloc, and moreover, that there isn’t (and hasn’t been) contestation and heterogeneity within these societies as to womens’ rights. For example, Iran has always been home to a large contingent of leftist politics that focuses on womens’ rights, they’re not in power at present, but that’s not to say that these things aren’t contested and fluid “over there”. Yes, there is such thing as an Iranian feminist, like Shirin Ebadi.

My essential problem is that your campaign, in advocating for something ethical, is actually unethical in perpetuating and creating a massive and false generalization about people “over there” in “those countries”. This unambiguous view of things leads to a black and white view of the world, to a certain othering of “those people”, rather than critical engagement with what is actually going on in those countries on the ground, in communities, in families, at the micro-level. Politically speaking, black and white views and “othering” are necessary pre-conditions to supremely unethical acts like genocide or an unjust war. While no one would contend that this campaign is advocating some sort of war or genocide, it is through the pursuit of its interest in this particular fashion that it lays an intellectual groundwork which would allow for the political possibility of supremely unethical acts.

In supposedly trying to be “ethical”, in reality a thinly veiled term to hide a base interest (let’s be honest), this campaign has committed a highly unethical act – shame on you! But you wouldn’t publish this would you?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:35:00 +0000

Oil Sands Bashing is silly because we are doing much to destroy the environment besides that. If you’re really worried about it, Go set up shop in China. Screeching at Albertans just makes you look stupid. The San Fran oil spill probably did more damage in one incident than all our efforts in the MacMurray region since the ’60′s. Why not discuss offshore drilling or Russia’s dirty little habit of dumping nuclear waste into the oceans. Choose a region and bash away. What really disgusts me is Canadians bashing Alberta. They should be shipped to Nigeria to work on an oil rig. (or China to work on a dam) (-a Russian submarine)

By: Relger

Relger — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:18:00 +0000

Not to mention the mode of transport used to deliver their goods, unless they use bicycles, they are probably using Oil Sands products wether they like it or not.

By: Sicamous

Sicamous — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:23:00 +0000

Terrorist oil. Hypocrites!

By: R_yewell

R_yewell — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:51:00 +0000

I wonder what kind of oil LUSH uses to make it’s overpriced soap?

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:17:00 +0000

Environmentally reckless describes this “ethical oil” perfectly. And it destroys too much forest too.

Besides, how much harm can a denture adhesive do?