{"id":10944,"date":"2025-03-19T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10944"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T23:20:10","slug":"letter-to-unilever-and-ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-about-their-social-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/letter-to-unilever-and-ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-about-their-social-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Unilever and Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream about their Social Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent this letter to Unilever today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unileverusa.com\/contact\/\">on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hear that Unilever recently fired the CEO of Ben and Jerry&#8217;s due to social mission disagreements and has blocked many of the social mission outreaches that the Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Independent Board has approved of.<\/p>\n<p>When you bought Ben and Jerry&#8217;s in 2000, you bought their social mission too. It is in the contract.<\/p>\n<p>If you abandon Ben and Jerry&#8217;s social mission, I will stop purchasing your product and strongly suggest to my friends the same. Please uphold your end the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A response would be appreciated. Thank you,<br \/>\nLee Sonko<\/p>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/03\/19\/ben-jerrys-ceo-unilever\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/03\/19\/ben-jerrys-ceo-unilever\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent this letter to Unilever today on their website. I hear that Unilever recently fired the CEO of Ben and Jerry&#8217;s due to social mission disagreements and has blocked many of the social mission outreaches that the Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Independent Board has approved of. When you bought Ben and Jerry&#8217;s in 2000, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}