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Originally Posted by Livefastdiepret  Yeah. Well, I think I may just have to keep on searching lol. Or just stick to body shop/lush for skincare and mac and urban decay for make up.
Whats the story with Benefit? do they test on animals? I dont think i saw them on the list but i may have missed them... |
Not sure about benefit.
Link to another list of tested untested:
Cruelty Free Shopping Guide: Non-animal testing companies and products
Good article about why Tesco is a no no:
Zoe Wood, retail correspondent
Sunday June 10, 2007
The Observer
American union officials have sounded their strongest warning yet to Tesco, stating that they will impede the retailer's West Coast debut with mass picketing if it does not talk to them.
'The market Tesco is entering is very heavily unionised,' said United Food and Commercial Workers' (UFCW) spokeswoman Jill Cashen. 'It is in its financial best interests to enter into a union relationship. We have in the past successfully mobilised our community to turn business away from companies who are not offering union representation to employees.'
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The UFCW, which has 1.3 million members in North America and 165,000 in California, argues that non-union stores pay workers lower wages and scrimp on benefits. It waged a two-year war in California against Mexican giant Grupo Gigante, which finally relented.
The threat came as Tesco's US chief executive, Tim Mason, provided details of Fresh & Easy, the chain of convenience-style stores it will launch this autumn. Tesco is investing £250m a year in the start-up it believes could eventually rival its £35bn UK operation. 'There is no point going to America to build a small business,' said Mason.
Tesco believes the 10,000 sq ft 'neighborhood markets' will help alter the American diet by offering shoppers fresher, more nutritious food on their doorstep. 'People like to shop in their neighbourhoods, if they are in touch on price and quality,' said Mason 'The food will be fresher and offer better value.' Half the retail offer will be own-brand Fresh & Easy products, which contain no trans-fats or artificial flavourings. Tesco will also put a sell-by date on fruit, which is not industry practice in America.
Fresh & Easy aims to attract a 'broad church' of shoppers from wealthy Californians to blue-collar workers. It will also cater for the American love of steak and coffee. 'Steak is an iconic product, but Americans are less fussy about wine,' said Mason. 'Coffee is more important because they drink so much of it.'
Tesco will launch Fresh & Easy simultaneously in Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego and Las Vegas, and expects to have 50 shops open by February.
The British retailer recently had a skirmish with UK super-union Unite, but in general has a constructive relationship with labour organisations here. Mason said Tesco hadn't decided on US industrial relations policy yet, but analysts expect it to follow the non-union example of competitors such as Whole Foods and Wal-Mart. Tesco has yet to embark on a recruitment drive, but is promising to pay better than Wal-Mart, which is pilloried by UFCW over pay and benefits.
Mason appeared to rule out acquisition as a way to accelerate the growth of Fresh & Easy: businesses in the US went for 'a very full price', he said.
Mason added that there were no immediate plans to open its traditional supermarkets or launch Tesco ClubCard in America, but added 'never say never'.
Stand by your cruelty-free claims, says BUAV
Leading supermarkets are threatened with being named and shamed by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) for being complicit in testing their cosmetic products on animals.
The BUAV claims consumers are being misled by leading stores which say their cosmetic products are not tested on animals. It has written to Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's warning them they risk losing tens of thousands of customers if they fail to crack down on cosmetics suppliers who test ingredients on animals.
The BUAV says animal welfare is high on consumers' list of concerns. It says that while most supermarkets say their products aren't tested on animals, the ingredients in them often are.
The BUAV has established a rigorous 'leaping bunny' kite mark that it awards to firms that ensure no animal testing occurs at any stage in the production of its cosmetics.
Earlier this month, Marks and Spencer became the first mainstream retailer to be given the BUAV kitemark. The Body Shop and the Co-op have long been committed to avoiding animal testing.
BUAV chief executive Michelle Thew said: 'I want to say to the rest of the high street: "Step up to the plate and end animal testing".'
A Sainsbury's spokesman said it was open to the BUAV's suggestions of signing up to a Humane Cosmetics Standard.
Nick Mathiason
. i had no idea these products wee tested on animals. 
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