I’ve never had a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream treat yet, and after seeing the Canadian branch’s deep dive into Marxism-Leninism and various other woke causes, I won’t be doing so any time soon. Have these guys not learned anything from the Bud Light experience?
Mining, drilling, and logging corporations have been exploiting Indigenous communities for generations. Enabled by the government and unjust laws, they steal land, extract resources, and leave behind polluted water, ruined landscapes, and scarred communities.
When Indigenous activists and community leaders stand up and protest, companies regularly bring in police to silence them and even force them from their own land. In fact, a secretive special unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was created in British Columbia with the sole purpose of suppressing protests.
So the trucker protest being suppressed was different?
These clowns have been at it a long time, once I became aware, stopped buying.
Not a huge consumer but do like an occasional treat. Shaw’s and Kawartha Dairy can stand up to B&J’s or Hagen Daz any day. If in Canada, try Scotsburn Farmers’ Grapenut ice cream.
Kawartha Dairy is the local brand where I live, and you’re right. It’s the brand that gets my money.
Mmm, Kawartha Dairy, just love the Minden, Ontario location.
Ben & Jerry’s sold out to Unilever a long time ago…
“Our 400 brands around the world are on a global mission to do good. It’s been our goal – and part of our business – for over a hundred years. There’s still lots to do, but together, we can make sustainable living commonplace.”
They aren’t “do good”.
And the protesters are 100% grade A astroturf from various anti-growth organizations that prefer unaccountable hereditary “chiefs” over the elected will of the locals.
They are also Breyers . . . and Knorr, and Lipton, and Hellman’s, and Dove, and Coleman’s, and Popsicle, and . . .
Don’t mix ice cream and dog shit and expect the ice cream to improve the taste of the dog shit.
Hagen Daaz is way better anyhow.
Never tried B&J’s overpriced ice cream and after reading this,never will.
The anti-logging protests are lead by Tides and Sierra club activists with a few Indians bribed to take part. I know many Indians who worked as loggers and a few that owned their own company. They are NOT the activists and they sure as hell don’t support them.
Where in hell do people think all their wood and paper products are going to come from if there isn’t logging?
SJW folk on soapbox in front of Starbucks again. Using social media and all the new era tools to spread misinformation to other SJW crew. Send money, pay our salaries, we don’t contribute to economy, but certainly know what’s best for others. We do, we really do.
Meanwhile, the Jean and dirty hands crowd, contributing, paying taxes, actually doing meaningful work, get slammed by untruths and garbage noise by this crowd.
Really, injustices are long past folks, better look at all the natives, immigrants, plain folk going to work in all resource industries, benefiting themselves, communities, provinces, and the nation.
They dont have time, desire, or any interest in SJW propaganda and noise. Go away, just please go away, back to mom and dad’s couch.
Leave us alone. Yeesh, get a life, get a real job, and go back into the hole you came from. ENOUGH already.
From the news in 2000 Ben & Jerry’s got behind the green movement to reduce Dioxin, Steve Milloy who wrote the Book Green Hell pointed out at a conference that some flavours of their own ice cream contained 200 times more dioxin in a serving than the EPA safe daily dose.
https://www.wired.com/2000/08/ben-jerrys-dioxin-controversy/
Quote – “When Indigenous activists and community leaders stand up and protest, companies regularly bring in police to silence them…”
Uhm, no. Government sends in police to uphold the law. Companies can’t order the police to do anything, most of the time the police protect the illegal blockades.
I believe I’ve purchased Ben and Jerry’s … twice. That’s it. But their flavors are quite good. They’ve hired someone who knows what he’s doing. Because Ben and Jerry knew NOTHING about making ice cream, or cows, milk, cream, or much of anything. They “took classes” in ice cream making, then came up with Hippie, burn-out generation Flavor Names, such as “Cherry Garcia”. That’s their schtick. That’s their business model … sell high priced premium ice cream to the subset of my generation who said … “tear it all down ma’aaan” … but give me some premium ice cream with burn-out leftist names. Meh.
They’re actually marketing directly to their Marxist brethren… and customers.
B & J ice cream? Just rebrand and call in the Monica flavour.
I would never buy their shitt, as they shut down in Israel bc they supported terrorists (AKA; Palestinians)
Very much back in the day, spouse was working up the Mackenzie valley on minerals exploration. It was the company’s policy to hire locals where could, so did so. It was just after the Berger report, so spouse wanted to know the local response. It seems the locals were NOT happy; they wanted a buy-in, not a shut down. Locals very opposed to a “fly-in” project which would not benefit them in the least, but very much open to having the pipeline built if it meant their kids would get the training necessary to build and maintain same. Must say I agree with them. The Berger Commission report was definitely a lose-lose for all sides.
The treaties were clear.. Their culture was sovereign.. The land it was on was not.. Everything is upside down in native affairs..
Here they’re minor. We have Streets and Peter’s (and some local ones that aren’t as good) instead. They might well be under the same unilever, but for now at least, neither has gone into politics that I’m aware of…
Who doesn’t love massive multi-national corporations like Unilever trying to sway Canadian politics?
Hey B&J, those cows are grazing on native land.