Ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that parent company Unilever has silenced its attempts to express support for Palestinian refugees, and threatened to dismantle its board and sue its members over the issue.
The lawsuit is the latest sign of the long-simmering tensions between Ben & Jerry’s and consumer products maker Unilever. A rift erupted between the two in 2021 after Ben & Jerry’s said it would stop selling its products in the Israeli-occupied West Bank because it was inconsistent with its values, a move that led some to divest Unilever shares.
The ice cream maker then sued Unilever for selling its business in Israel to its licensee there, which allowed marketing in the West Bank and Israel to continue. That lawsuit was settled in 2022.
If they didn’t sell out to a corporation they wouldn’t be getting orders from the corporation.
Yeah the fuckers sold out. B&J quality has been in the shitter ever since. Yeah they still sell pint sizes but I fully expect them to fuck with that too.
It was a hostile takeover. One of the original founders tried to prevent it from happening.
Unilever-never-left-russia Unilever? Unilever the piece of shit fascist toadies Unilver? That one?
Huh.
The same Unilever known for abusing caged dogs while testing products on them?
Surprise! Corporate leftism is a lie!
If you want to keep a say over the political stances of your own company, the best way to do that is to [checks notes] sell it to Unilever
Something tells me they’ll go scorched earth.
Ben and Jerry’s shuts down: says america no longer deserves ice cream.
I can’t wait for the independent-owned cohen and greenfields ice cream
Jen and Berry’s
Boycott Unilever. Ironically that includes Ben & Jerry’s until they manage to break free from Unilever.
I know they make more than just cleaning products, but I always associate Unilever with soap, so whenever I see any food brand who has them as a parent I immediately thing their food tastes like soap.
Unilever is a conglomerate, much like Nestle, and has brands under many different types of products.
A better functioning government would break up these conglomerates as they operate like cartels, price fixing and gouging and colluding with each other, all at consumer expense, while simultaneously watering down product offerings to their worst versions.
This is NOT the free market.
What are you talking about, this is the natural conclusion of a free market.
Sure, sans regulation. The point of govt regulations is to ensure that platforms that control two sided markets are not given complete largesse to fleece the participants. It’s ultimately a defeating strategy with diminishing returns, as both producers and consumers lack the necessary surplus required to participate AND to invest/reinvest resources toward long term growth. Another reason that stock buy-backs used to be illegal.
And obviously you can probably guess I believe they should be illegal again.
I completely agree with you that the results (monopolies and oligopolies) are undesirable, and you’re doing a great job of explaining why the results are undesirable. But you’re not explaining why you think monopolies and oligopolies are not the natural outcome of a free market. The free market is not a good thing.
I agreed that they are the natural outcome, in the absence of effective regulation. Sans means without.
Capitalism inherently concentrates wealth, and as wealth concentrates, it builds upon itself while seeking out novel opportunities to deepen influence. We see this phenomenon in modern economic scenarios as individuals gain the ability to co-opt political forces, and create larger and larger wealth watersheds.
In other words, the existence of billionaires is a symptom of a broken system- one that has NOT effectively been regulated. They become monopolistic entities unto themselves. Billionaire brands then gain further leverage via network effects, creating a snowball that only government intervention can safely defuse. It doesn’t matter if one billionaire is “good,” nor one politician. As Edwards Deming famously said, “a bad system will beat a good person, every time.”
I totally agree, broken system and all. Still a free market. The free market is inherently a broken system.
You mean to say there’s only a few mega corporations controlling all of capitalism? Who would have thunk!? /s
If only someone had warned us in 1867, 1885, and 1894!
Yup, like I said I know they have more than cleaning products but i always associate them with soap.
Looks like I’ll never get to taste Chunky Gaza Green Tea Genocide…thanks a lot Unilever
Such a shame! Dairy Free Darfur Durian was one of their best flavors!
B&G have a good chance of coming out of this stronger than ever and with bigger profits. If Gaza was so bad that people could not bring themselves to elect a VP (who has no say in anything in the administration does) to the presidency, hopefully those people are gonna go full blown diabetic eating all their fucking ice cream for the next 4+ years.
Problem is that Ben &Jerry’s is still owned by Unilever. Supporting them means profits for Unilever which supports Israel. It is extremely paradoxical.
It’s incredible how transparently you’re admitting you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Although if liberals knew why they lost, they’d be too intelligent to be liberals.
p.s “B&G” is a different company, bud.
