Jerry quits Ben & Jerry's, saying its independence on social issues has been stifled (after corporate sellout)
Jerry quits Ben & Jerry's, saying its independence on social issues has been stifled (after corporate sellout)
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Who could have guessed that selling out to a multinational corporation would compromise your independence on social issues?
I mean... they sold the company over 25 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s#Unilever_era). They apparently had a lot of contractual clauses to let them continue with activism. And 25 years is a real good run.
Which is also what makes me really curious why it finally collapsed. Apparently Ben was spewing some real tanky bullshit with respect to Ukraine so it might not even be that Unilever's lawyers finally found the loophole they needed.
It was because Unilever was selling the ice cream in Israel and trying to suppress their pro Palestine messaging.
It's Jerry who quit, though, not Ben
When you put it that way, that is a lot longer than I would have expected it to last.
But it would have come sooner or later.
Really... They're usually so nice and humane...