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Old 06-17-2017, 12:58   #1
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Left-wing Ice Cream, ben & jerry's

I don't buy it cause it's so left-wing, but this is very satisfying, watching SJW's fight with SJW's......... just follow the money......

Come one you Vermont farm workers, you're hurting the Corporate ice cream wallets! Those VP's need their millions a year to, to, to pay the gas bill for their yachts'.






SCORES OF FARM WORKERS, ACTIVISTS MARCH ON BEN & JERRY'S
BY WILSON RING
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters said Ben & Jerry's agreed two years ago to participate in the so-called Milk with Dignity program, but the company and worker representatives have yet to reach an agreement.

"We can't wait any more. We are going to pressure them and see what happens," said Victor Diaz, a Mexican immigrant now working on a farm in Vergennes.

Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood said before Saturday's march from the Statehouse to the Waterbury factory that the company was eager to reach an agreement and negotiations were underway.

"We are a values-led business. We frame ourselves as an aspiring social justice company," said Greenwood. "We try to do good with everything we can with our business. Dairy has definitely been one of those issues we have done a ton of work on for decades."

Ben & Jerry's touts its social activism as much as its quirky ice-cream flavors such as Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Phish Food. Many of its raw materials, like sugar, cocoa, vanilla, bananas and coffee come from producers across the world that subscribe to the Fairtrade program, which promotes higher prices and better working conditions for farmers.

About 85 percent of the milk Ben & Jerry's uses in its ice cream made in North America comes from about 80 Vermont dairy farms. Its Caring Dairy program promotes sustainable farming by offering farmers cash incentives for keeping up with best management practices.

The Milk with Dignity program was developed in 2014 by farm workers and the Vermont group Migrant Justice to ensure that farms provide them fair wages and working conditions and decent housing. In 2015, Ben & Jerry's agreed to join the program. Since then, the two sides have been negotiating over the details.

"We've been negotiating in good faith," said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice. "It's an unacceptable delay."

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Old 06-17-2017, 13:59   #2
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I think they should compensate the cow's for their milk. Cow's have rights too, even transgender cows.
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Old 06-17-2017, 14:26   #3
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SJWs screwing with SJWs...udderly entertaining.
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Ben and Jerry's has been owned by Unilever since 2001 or 2002. They couldn't keep a CEO because of their leftest "pay fairness" policy. Unilever is British/Dutch.

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Old 06-17-2017, 20:17   #5
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What's this Ben & Jerry's?

Around my parts eating ice cream that's not Blue Bell is considered sacrilegious...
Then again I might be a little biased because a large portion of my wife's family has worked for Blue Bell for many years.
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Old 06-17-2017, 21:32   #6
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"We are a values-led business. We frame ourselves as an aspiring social justice company," said Greenwood. "We try to do good with everything we can with our business. Dairy has definitely been one of those issues we have done a ton of work on for decades."

Ben & Jerry's touts its social activism as much as its quirky ice-cream flavors such as Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Phish Food. Many of its raw materials, like sugar, cocoa, vanilla, bananas and coffee come from producers across the world that subscribe to the Fairtrade program, which promotes higher prices and better working conditions for farmers.
They've been a Unilever-owned company (globalist progressive corp) for some years now.
From their "Economic Mission" (vs. Social Mission):
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Really, c'mon they should be socially responsive & open up some branches all over Venezuela.

(For me, they're the Starbucks of ice-cream; over-priced & over-rated.)
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Old 06-19-2017, 07:43   #7
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I think they should compensate the cow's for their milk. Cow's have rights too, even transgender cows.
How has a company like this not come out with an ice cream made of "bull's milk" yet?
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How has a company like this not come out with an ice cream made of "bull's milk" yet?
Lol, Doc, I stand in awe ! Yet again, you demonstrate your zen-like abilities; obliterating cultural norms and disproving old and hackneyed phrases in one fell swoop while simultaneously illuminating just how destructive progressives can be...

"...as useful as tits on a bull..."

No longer resonates in the B&J ice cream world of today!!!!...
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How has a company like this not come out with an ice cream made of "bull's milk" yet?
How to collect 'bulls milk.'

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How to collect 'bulls milk.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWS-61ZI8g4
Oh no...you went there...



Ok...what are they gonna name that damn ice cream flavor...
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Ok...what are they gonna name that damn ice cream flavor...
That's where I was going, too. Perhaps, "B&J's Jugo de Juevos de Toros" (to also pander to the non-English speaking liberal crowd)
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Old 06-19-2017, 13:23   #12
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Around my parts eating ice cream that's not Blue Bell is considered sacrilegious..
Grew up that way as well.

Discovered haggen-dazs at my first job, at age 15.5, in a kitchen...It was at a Country Club and fell in love with it. Lol

Later on Ben and Jerry's came out, but my thought was blah, just an imitation, and a left wing tear drop could be seen in the titles of the stuff. (Cherries Garcia. Phish Food etc...)

TS is spot on, as usual.


I Admit it, my favorite food is strawberry haggen-dazs.

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That's where I was going, too. Perhaps, "B&J's Jugo de Juevos de Toros" (to also pander to the non-English speaking liberal crowd)
Thanks to you Doc, as far as progressive ice cream products go it now seems Ben and Jerrys has the bases covered.

Pfft...Hojos only had 28 flavors.
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Ok...what are they gonna name that damn ice cream flavor...
Progressive Delight?
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How has a company like this not come out with an ice cream made of "bull's milk" yet?
Perhaps they have. If not, they can call it "Ben Nutty."
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