Ben and Jerry's stampede program

[malaise]

being discussed on Ed Shultz - love the truck. They are fighting to get money out of politics.
Stamp money out of politics
Not to be used for bribing politicians


Go Ben!!

[xchrom]

1. ...

http://www.stampstampede.org/

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[malaise]

3. Cool - they raised the money for the vehicle

I love Ben Cohen

[handmade34]

2. Stamp Stampede: love the idea

http://www.stampstampede.org

must say though... I like Ben and Jerry's ice cream... but many people are under the impression that Ben and Jerry (the real people) are still involved- they are not... Ben and Jerry's ice cream is now owned by Unilever the Corporate giant, so if you want to do good buy the stamps NOT the ice cream (only buy the ice cream if you're hungry for something yummy)

[malaise]

4. Yep I know

We only buy Devon House ice cream

[handmade34]

5. figured you knew...

just noting that on the Ed Show, Ed remarked to Ben Cohen that he had eaten some of the ice cream and all the tweets at the bottom were from people talking about the ice cream... made me want to yell at them and tell them the truth

[malaise]

6. LOL - apparently lots of people don't know

the truth.

[cali]

7. It operates pretty independently from Unilever

has its own independent board.

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In 2010, Jostein Solheim, a Unilever executive from Norway, became the new CEO of the company and had this to say about the transition: "My mantra that I've repeated a hundred times since starting at Ben & Jerry's is: ‘Change is a wonderful thing,'" he said. "The world needs dramatic change to address the social and environmental challenges we are facing. Values led businesses can play a critical role in driving that positive change. We need to lead by example, and prove to the world that this is the best way to run a business. Historically, this company has been and must continue to be a pioneer to continually challenge how business can be a force for good and address inequities inherent in global business."[11]

In 2001, Ben & Jerry's U.S. completed transition to "Eco-Pint" packaging, which packaged all pint flavors in environmentally friendly unbleached paperboard Eco-Pint containers, a decision it later reversed. The use of brown-kraft unbleached paperboard had been a critical first step toward a totally biodegradable pint made without added chlorine. Due to what they described as increasing supply, quality, and cost challenges, Ben & Jerry's discontinued their use of the Eco-Pint in 2006, transitioning to a pint container made out of a bleached paperboard that it said was more readily available with superior forming characteristics.[citation needed]

On Earth Day in 2005, when a vote in the U.S. Senate proposed the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, Ben & Jerry's launched a protest by creating the largest ever Baked Alaska, which weighed 900 pounds, and placed it in front of the U.S. Capitol Building.[12][13]

In March 2009, "CyClone Dairy"[14] launched an advertising campaign and a website to promote its milk products, which purportedly came exclusively from cloned cows.[15] On April 1, 2009 (April Fool's Day), Ben & Jerry's announced that it was behind this fake company. Ben & Jerry's had created the tongue-in-cheek hoax to raise awareness of the increasing presence of products from cloned animals within American food,[16][17] and to campaign for a tracking system of cloned-animal products.[18] The hoax was revealed on April Fool's Day with the message: "We believe you should have the right to choose which foods you eat – and not to eat cloned foods if you don’t want to. And that's why Ben & Jerry’s believes we need a national clone tracking system, so people and companies can know where their food is coming from."[19]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_and_Jerry%27s