Posted on 10/10/2011 5:23:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We, the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company’s mission and values, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have joined in solidarity. The issues raised are of fundamental importance to all of us. These include:
The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral. We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation’s youth are unemployed. Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by. Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt. Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people.
We know the media will either ignore you or frame the issue as to who may be getting pepper sprayed rather than addressing the despair and hardships borne by so many, or accurately conveying what this movement is about. All this goes on while corporate profits continue to soar and millionaires whine about paying a bit more in taxes. And we have not even mentioned the environment.
We know that words are relatively easy but we wanted to act quickly to demonstrate our support. As a board and as a company we have actively been involved with these issues for years but your efforts have put them out front in a way we have not been able to do. We have provided support to citizens’ efforts to rein in corporate money in politics, we pay a livable wage to our employees, we directly support family farms and we are working to source fairly traded ingredients for all our products. But we realize that Occupy Wall Street is calling for systemic change. We support this call to action and are honored to join you in this call to take back our nation and democracy.
— Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors
I have never eaten their garbage and never will......
Instead of defecating on the police cars, the fleabaggers should just plop B&Js on them...it’s the same thing.
Ummm...I call upon the members of the Board of Directors to divest themselves of any and all stock, bonds, pensions, 401(k)s, etc they have received or will receive from B&J’s.
Further, I call upon B&J’s to forgo any future profits and to begin to give away stock to anyone who wants it.
Further, I call upon B&J’s to just give their ice cream away to anyone who wants it.
Until they are willing to do this, just shut the heck up.
Oh how I miss Blue Bell now that we are back on the east coast. Schwan’s has good ice cream, though.
What’s next from Ben & Jerry’s? Perhaps some ‘Occupier Tracks’ ice cream? I’m sure it would taste like urine, unwashed greasy hair, and BO. The liberal activist trifecta of funk.
Well they should know since they are mega rich and I am not:)
I am so glad that I caught on to the brand right about when they released that “Garcia” flavor. I have not touched it since. Bluebell is awesome and from TX. If you want a little indulgence, Talenti gelato “salted caramel” will make you snack somebody. No hippy boys or Starbucks ice cream will ever come in my house.
So how do we pay for all these pie in the sky government programs? Wonder what the total annual cost of these is?
I can’t boycott them since I don’t eat B&J ice cream - too many calories.
The company was sold to a corporation for unteen millions a while back. I stopped buying their over price confection when I learned of their progressivism, before the two guys sold it to a leftist corporation.
I know! Another case where I wished I bought their product so I could STOP buying it!!!!!!
And it is a Dutch/English conglomerate as well. It isn’t even a US conglomerate.
Unilever is in fact a very large corporation, one of the world’s largest for consumer products. From the lefty site, “CorporateWatch.org”
“However, in spite of Unilever’s vast size and presence worldwide, the company’s actual visibility is surprisingly low. Anonymity hides the company’s importance. Unilever does not retail under its own name, preferring brand names to create the illusion of diversity. Who does not know brand names like Magnum, Omo, Dove, Knorr, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Slim-Fast, Iglo, Unox, Becel, and Lever2000? They’re all part of the ‘Unilever armada of brand names’. To make sure the brand names do not go unnoticed, Unilever spends huge amounts of money on marketing and advertising. Advertising has always been a keystone of Unilever’s businesses. The Dutch-Anglo company is likely to be the world’s number one advertiser. (Advertising Age estimate a 1999 global media spend of $3.7bn (£2,539bn), of which $3.1bn (£2,127bn) was outside the US, making Unilever the world’s #1 advertiser)[2].”
Looks like the kiddies have been bamboozled.
Again.
Ben, If you're reading this do you remember what we gave Lex Page for his birthday? Remember, we propped it up in the A-frame and attached a big red bow.
Now they have adopted the trendy marketing figleaf of "sustainability" while continuing to absorb numerous producers of consumer goods.
A fitting corporate owner of the pretentious a-holes at B&J's.
Its not me, its not me. Its that corporation behind the tree.
Well said.
Ben & Jerry's, the latest in occupocrisy!
These business people that stand with these losers and thieves are very naive indeed.
If you ever visit Oregon, try Umpqua or Tillamook ice cream.
Spencer’s Ice Cream in Milford, Maine is great!
I think this is just a transparent ploy to market their new “Crown Victoria Fudge Ripple” flavor.
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