US-Hating Ben & Jerry Likely Cost Unilever $2.5B

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Ben & Jerry of the eponymous ice cream company spent July 4th telling people the United States was stolen from Indigenous people, and we must return the land. They also want Mt. Rushmore destroyed. They didn’t get their wish, but their ice cream cost Unilever $2.5 billion in market shares.

“The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights,” the post on their website alleged.

The only holiday for Independence they will honor is Juneteenth, a depressing day to remember slavery.

They want to defund the police, and they make workers watch anti-Israel films.

They have always been America-hating Marxists, and this is nothing new for them, but it hit a chord this time. Conservatives who are normally opposed to boycotts have had enough.

John Rich was among the more famous people calling for a boycott.

“Make @benndjerrys Bud Light again,” country singer-songwriter John Rich wrote in response, responding to the several-week-long boycott targeting Bud Light that has seen the beer company’s year-over-year sales plummet. While Bud Light didn’t attack the founding of the United States, the company was panned for producing a can of beer with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s face on it.

Jerry Greenfield (l) and Ben Cohen
The Epoch Times

Unilever stock lost about $2 billion in market capitalization amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after the company posted a Fourth of July message saying the United States should hand Mount Rushmore over to Native Americans.

Shares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational company, dropped about 0.5 percent on Friday, 0.8 percent on Thursday, and 0.5 the previous day. It’s not clear if the drop was due to the calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s, which has been owned by Unilever since 2000.

The loss is now up to $2.5 billion. Keep it up. I don’t think boycotts are American, but these people aren’t American, so let’s do it. It’s easy to boycott ice cream. There are so many good ice cream companies. We don’t need them.

MANY PROMINENT CONSERVATIVES HAVE JOINED THE BOYCOTT


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Wylie1
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Wylie1
4 months ago

2.5 billion loss is a good start. Now keep going.

WDS
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WDS
4 months ago

How many products does Unilever own? Think they won’t make up the loss by increasing the wholesale price of their products to the retailers who then increase the price to the consumer? Even Ray Charles could see that.

Tim Kuehl
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Tim Kuehl
4 months ago

I boycotted Ben & Jerry’s a long time ago when I learned about their radical political positions. Same with Starbucks. And it’s hypocritical how these socialist, possibly Marxist leaders of these companies charge way more money for their product than their competition. It’s even more hypocritical that Starbucks fought being unionized. I thought leftists loved unions. But just not their businesses being unionized.

John Vieira
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John Vieira
4 months ago

Never bought the hyped overpriced garbage…

Peter Prange
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Peter Prange
4 months ago

“Keep it up. I don’t think boycotts are American, but these people aren’t American, so let’s do it. It’s easy to boycott ice cream. There are so many good ice cream companies. We don’t need them.”

You have brilliantly caught the patriotic American spirit that supports the first amendment.
Born in 1944, I grew up often hearing the saying: While I disagree with what you are saying, I will fight to he death to defend your freedom to say it.

It is a defence of the 1st amendment.

It is the intolerance of the left that has caused many to say: enough is enough!

John Locke, English philosopher – Often credited with developing the philosophy that inspired the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the US constitution.

In “Letters Concerning Toleration” Locke pleaded for toleration of all people. He excluded from toleration:

           1. Oath breakers.

           2. Traitors (citizens who gave their allegiance to another government).

           3. Atheists – denying God they rob oaths and covenants of meaning.

           4. The intolerant.