Critics are pointing to a recent New York Times report that several Ben & Jerry’s flavors had tested positive for glyphosate, an herbicide.
Protesters target Ben & Jerry’s over source farm practices
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For Ben & Jerry’s, hint of herbicide sparks big headache
The Organic Consumers Association announced it had found traces of glyphosate — the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup — in samples of the Vermont company’s products.
Michael Colby: Ben & Jerry’s has no clothes
For 20 years I’ve been engaging Ben & Jerry’s, showing them the damage that it is doing at every level, from the atrazine report in 1997 to the GMO report in 2016 and a slew of face-to-face meetings in between.
Will Allen: Time’s up on the Ben & Jerry’s charade
It’s time to stop pretending that Ben & Jerry’s is a socially or environmentally conscious corporation.
Dairy Workers Lead 13-Mile March on Ben & Jerry’s
News Release — Migrant Justice June 16, 2017 Contact: Will Lambek 802-321-8393 [email protected] Migrant Justice calls on ice cream giant to join “Milk with Dignity” Program What: Vermont dairy workers will lead a historic 13 mile march through the state’s iconic rural landscape, culminating at the Ben & Jerry’s factory and tourist destination. Workers and […]
Joann Kamuf Ward & Benjamin Hoffman: Ben & Jerry’s not living up to its values
Across Vermont, ice cream’s key ingredient, milk, is sourced from numerous farms where the largely immigrant workforce endures harsh conditions and human rights violations.
Rachel Siegel: A nudge to Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s has an opportunity to join the worker-led Milk With Dignity Program and secure the human rights of dairy workers right here in its own backyard.
Michael Colby & Will Allen: Sweatshop dairy
Everyone supports the farmer, right? Except, that is, when it comes time to providing them with a fair price.
Will Allen & Michael Colby: Dairy marketing vs. reality
Instead of addressing the toxic legacy of the very non-organic dairying that dominates our agriculture, Vermont’s two giant diary corporations and the state’s agricultural agency continue to hide behind the myth and the marketing.
Ben & Jerry: Sanders’ sweet surrogates
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have been dishing out Bernie Sanders’ message to voters in New Hampshire and Iowa one line and a spoonful at a time.
Ben & Jerry’s global growth lacks one local ingredient
Vermonters digging into the Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia ice cream sold in nearly three dozen countries outside of North America may be surprised to find one thing missing.
16 cities call on Ben & Jerry’s to ensure dairy workers’ rights
News Release — June 22, 2015 Migrant Justice Burlington — Over 40 dairy farmworkers and dozens of community supporters gathered at the Migrant Justice office, in the old north end of Burlington, preparing to march to Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop on Church St to call on the ice cream company to join a new […]
Mark Hage: Time to boycott Ben & Jerry’s
Despite what it knows and the values that define its corporate identity, Ben & Jerry’s refuses to stop the business practices of its Israeli franchise in Occupied Palestine.
GMP gets certified socially conscious
Green Mountain Power is the world’s first utility to now be among the ranks of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company, one of the early adopters of a corporate social mission.