A company appropriately called Lush Cosmetics is funding an anti-fracking campaign in the UK, all the while blithely ignoring the fact its products are hydrocarbon based. Its US operations also help the Rockefeller family fund 350.org.

Our good friend Nick Grealy of No Hot Air has a phenomenally good story regarding the funding of fractivist activity in the UK by a company that prides itself on being attached to every imaginable cause but markets products made from the stuff it lambasts others for producing – petroleum based products. The company is Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics and it is primarily a UK operation, but has 145 stores in the US, including at least 74 in oil and/or gas producing states.

Lush is one of those hyper-trendy outfits that preaches at you every second about how ethical it is. No doubt it’s a great marketing tool for reaching customers endeared to this condescending message, but that old line about capitalists being all too willing to sell their hangman the rope with which to hang them comes to mind, doesn’t it?

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