Lacoste - greedy and toxic

So we have the following events:

1. 13/July/2011 - In July Greenpeace presents the 'Dirty Laundry' report. Lacoste, and other brands - Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, Bauer Hockey, Calvin Klein, Converse, Cortefiel, H&M, Nike, Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH Corp) and Puma are using so unfortunate Chinese peasants to do some of their manufacturing. I will not talk about right now about this "patriotic" companies who moved the production from their countries to the land where slavery is still allowed. Of course, for the simple reason that hey don't give a fuck and the only goal for them is small costs/huge profits, they manage to discharge a range of hazardous and persistent chemicals with hormone-disrupting properties.

These results are indicative of a much wider problem that is posing serious and immediate threats to both our precious ecosystems and to human health. Urgent and transparent action is needed in order to eliminate the use and release of these hazardous chemicals. 

 Later in August Greenpeace discovers:

that clothing and certain fabric-based shoes sold internationallyby major clothing brands are manufactured using nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs). NPEs -- which are used as surfactants in textileproduction -- subsequently break down to form toxic nonylphenol (NP). Nonylphenol is a persistent chemical with hormone-disruptingproperties that builds up in the food chain, and is hazardous even at very low levels.

15 brands were tested, including Lacoste, and the results are showing that ALL OF THEM are selling products that contain Nonylphenon, even if it's hazardous at very low levels. But they could not care less and when they are caught they treat us like a bunch of idiots with their crappy press releases. For Lacoste is even worse because they are french.

2. 22/July/2011 - The second event: A huge retard, Anders Behring Breivik, kills 69 people on 22 of July. In time it turnes out the moron wears Lacoste a lot. Hmmm...maybe the toxic substances from their products caused him brain damage in time; but no assumption for the moment.


So what's the big move by Lacoste?


3. Stop Anders Breivik wearing our clothes, Lacoste reportedly ask police !!!


OK. Until they can afford some decent PR I will give them some free advices. Even if Breivik is in arrest, and the chances are that the prosecutors will go for crimes against humanity, he still has some rights. One would be to wear the clothe he owns. So the only way I could interpret their contact with the police is as an instigation to an abuse. I can almost imagine the french whining on the telephone, explaining how they have to fie some of the Chinese slaves in order to cover the potential loses.

Another important, easy to think and decent thing would be to present your condolences first, then solve profit issues. If they did, I apologize and I will update this post immediately but I really couldn't found anything online.

I don't have anything personally with Lacoste, or the french :P, but this is the kind of behavior that makes me sick. Some more cases I will present in the future will make Lacose look like it's run by the purest nuns, so don't sweat too much.