Thanks for the information.
I'm glad I put "creator."
All those nice ice cream profits went into an anti-American's pocket.
From the leftist site "Common Dreams:"
***So Unilever has gobbled up Ben & Jerry's. The $45 billion megacompany that rose from the British and Dutch colonial empires (turning palm and coconut oil into soap and margarine) has acquired Vermont's outrageous little ice cream maker for $326 million. The American dream at work. A couple of hippies invent wild new ice cream flavors in their garage and end up multimillionaires. ........
What will happen to the Ben & Jerry's Foundation? (As a condition of the deal, Unilever will continue giving away 7.5 percent of all pre-tax profits and will contribute an up-front $5 million to the foundation -- plus another $5 million for minority-owned business startups and yet another $5 million to employees. What the Foundation will fund in the future remains, of course, to be seen.) ........***
http://www.commondreams.org/views/041300-106.htm
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"Scotsman": ***REVENGE, for the shock troops of the anti-globalisation movement, is a dish best served cold - preferably in the form of ice-cream, marbled with chocolate-chip cookie dough or fudge-covered, peanut butter-filled pretzels. Last year, the Ruckus Society, which trained the activists who were instrumental in shutting down the 1999 World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, received $100,000 from The Ben & Jerry Foundation. The foundation’s own coffers had recently received a $5 million donation from Unilever, the company that sells a range of goods, from Lipton tea to Dove soap, in 150 countries.
The gift, along with a $5m venture capital fund for "ethical start-ups" and a commitment to donate $1.1m annually to groups campaigning for social change, was part of a deal wrung from the Anglo-Dutch concern by the ice-cream company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield when they sold to the multinational. That and the $326m asking price for the business they had begun as a happy-hippy culinary whim.
"It’s great that it’s Unilever money," John Sellers, the Ruckus Society’s director, told the Financial Times. "There’s no better way to launder corporate multinational largesse than by giving to the movement that is confronting it."
Unilever was well aware where the money was headed; during negotiations over the sale of Ben & Jerry’s, Cohen and Greenfield had many forthright discussions with the company’s directors about ethics in business. Obviously, Unilever thought that the donations represented a price worth paying for such a strong brand; in the debate - sometimes violent conflict - over the pros and cons of global trade, irony is layered upon irony, upon marshmallow pieces, upon caramel swirls. ....***
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***.....If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints. ...
...It is this same idea that is found in the Social Gospel which impressed the youthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. She later encountered the same idea in the New Left at Yale and in the Venceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba, and in the writings of the New Leftist who introduced her to the "politics of meaning" even after she had become America's First Lady. It is the idea that drives her comrades in the Children's Defense Fund, the National Organization for Women, the Al Sharpton House of Justice and the other progressive causes which for that reason still look to her as a political leader.
For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal-"social justice"-is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself. ...*** Source