An article on The Hindu website states "A group of more than 40 technologists have banded together and created the ‘Tech for Palestine’ initiative to show their support to Palestine and boycott tech products linked to Israel." organisation Tech for Palestine is calling for a boycott of investment platform eToro, as part of its project ' Israeli Tech Alternatives'. However, SC Johnson is yet to do so, and Naturewatch Foundation is asking compassionate consumers to boycott all SC Johnson brands, including Ecover and Method, until the entire company is cruelty-free. The boycott has since seen some success with Ecover and Method committing to use their influence to convince SC Johnson to go cruelty-free. For as long as these - and any other brands - maintain direct or indirect links to animal testing, we'll urge compassionate shoppers to leave their products out of their basket. We commend method and Ecover for their personal commitments to being cruelty free, but sadly they've failed to use their influence on their parent company, SC Johnson. In January 2023 campaign manager for Animal Experiments at Naturewatch, Natalie Harney, said: In December 2017, Ecover and its sister company Method were purchased by SC Johnson, a US company that openly admits to testing on animals and owns other non Naturewatch-endorsed household cleaning brands such as Duck, Shout, Glade, Pledge and Windex. Foundation launched a boycott call against Ecover in April 2018, over the brand's links to companies that test products on animals. It is asking its supporters to contact Channel 4 and ask it to stop airing the show. In March 2022 PETA slammed the competition as a “grotesque charade”. The campaign says that this culture of breeding also have wider implication for canine welfare, pointing out that breeders may receive thousand of pounds for pedigree puppies with a low quality of life, while many healthy dogs remain in animal shelters. With its obsession with "purity of breed", Crufts popularises grossly exaggerated features in animals and awards prizes to dogs whose physical abnormalities make it impossible for them to lead a happy life – pugs with pushed-in faces who can barely breathe, Cavalier King Charles spaniels whose brains are too big for their skulls and bulldogs who can't even mate without assistance, to name just a few examples. The culture of breeding has serious health implications for the dogs involved on the show. The BBC dropped the show after revelations about ill, inbred animals, and the RSPCA refuses to attend it. Read more about Ethical Consumer’s boycott of Amazon on our detailed are calling on Channel 4 to stop airing Crufts. Let them know you are doing it by emailing or tweeting them via our Amazon company profile page.Take action now and pledge to boycott Amazon.You can use your spending power to send Amazon a clear message. Amazon’s monopoly supports staggering inequalities: between March and September 2020, at a time when most businesses were struggling, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos saw his personal wealth increase so much that he could have given all 876,000 Amazon employees a bonus of $105,000 and be as wealthy as he was pre-pandemic. Profits increased to £128 million.Īmazon has also come to dominate many online markets globally. Its key arm in the UK, Amazon UK Services, paid just £3.8 million more in corporation tax than in 2019 despite sales rising by £1.9 billion. In September 2021, Amazon – which has a market value of £1.5 trillion – released its tax figures for the previous year. And tax isn’t the only reason for the boycott call – Amazon’s poor record when it comes to workers’ rights and environmental impacts are also reasons for the boycott. Ethical Consumer has called for a boycott of Amazon over its outrageous tax avoidance since 2012.
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