• Linktank@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Seems like Ben & Jerry’s is one of the companies that you wouldn’t be trying to fuck over? Aren’t they politically aligned with most of the stuff that Trump is against?

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        It’s actually owned by a British company (Unilever) but they have been going down the pan themselves.

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      They publicly spoke out against delivering arms to Ukraine, parroting the Russian stance of blaming the west for for the war.

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      Unilever just had the CEO removed for being too much of an activist, and ‘aligning with the original owner’s views too strongly’.

      Means I recently bought my last pint of this icecream, because it no longer is a company I can justify exempting from the US boycott (since, in Canada it is produced in Canadian plants, using Canadian dairy products, and was actively going against the current US leadership).

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      They are. And their European stock is also manufactured in the Netherlands.