{"id":11335,"date":"2025-09-17T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11335"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:06:25","slug":"ben-and-jerrys-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/ben-and-jerrys-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben and Jerry’s Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In light of Jerry resigning from Ben and Jerry’s<\/a> because Unilever isn’t holding up their end of the deal, I sent another letter to Unilever:<\/p>\n

I wrote to you in March (see my public archive of the letter here<\/a>) saying “If you abandon Ben and Jerry\u2019s social mission, I will stop purchasing your product and strongly suggest to my friends the same.”<\/p>\n

My family has avoided your products since March. Now that the co-founder Jerry Greenfield has left the company for the same reasons, I will actively pursue removing your products from our local shelves by reaching out to friends and local stores, and activism describing how distasteful your products are.<\/p>\n

Do the right thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  In light of Jerry resigning from Ben and Jerry’s because Unilever isn’t holding up their end of the deal, I sent another letter to Unilever: I wrote to you in March (see my public archive of the letter here) saying “If you abandon Ben and Jerry\u2019s social mission, I will stop purchasing your product […]<\/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-11335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335","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=11335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}