Sad news: we need to boycott Ben and Jerry’s

Hmm. So sound on Palestine though. And prepared to walk the walk.

I've never even tasted Ben and Jerry's, the price alone put me off.

I'll stick to Aldi and Lidl's fancier ice cream, cheaper and I bet it's nicer than B&J's too.

Already boycott them due to the unbelievable abuse cows endure. Rape- forced pregnancy- steal calf- murder calf- repeat until their body gives out, then shipped to a slaughtere house. Only animals, yes, but still female.

Would be good to have a thread listing the brands to avoid.

Colin Wynter KC

I have seen references to a post, purportedly from Ben & Jerry's, in which it is stated that the Law Project people "are legally challenging" the SC judgment.
No one, neither God nor Beelzebub, can "challenge" an SC judgment.
Any "challenge" can only be to UK govt for its laws.

Funnelling money to GLP actually could work out ok given their success rate in 8 Trans cases is 0.

Here's an amusing example of their virtue signaling backfiring from a couple of years ago:
www.newsweek.com/ben-jerrys-icecream-indigenous-compensation-vermont-headquarters-1812807

I think it might have been one of those 2 as both were on the shelf in question.

Interesting as both of those companies regularly feature on here & I've struggled to get past the Starbucks/mermaids stuff.

These companies will end up with a problem if they're getting boycotted from all directions.

You are so right. What they said shows so little understanding of what the ruling was about that it is embarrassing for their image.

Not sure, but in the world of iced coffee drinks Costa & Starbucks both tried to lure the LGBTQIA+ £ with promotional stuff - maybe there was backlash?

I stopped buying them ages ago, they're shite.

I was in Waitrose by the sandwich meal deal fridge & 2 young trans identifying males were choosing their drink - one was asking the other to avoid 'that' because of the 'trans boycott'.

I've been trying to figure out what is was - hoping it's something tasty that I can enjoy.

It was the fizzy drinks, energy drinks, iced coffees side (not the juices, smoothies or kombucha/health drinks which are in a different fridge)

Anyone any ideas?

Yes this is so true. Their ice cream is full of crap. And so are they.

They are still money grabbing bastards behind their cynical veneer of pretending to be social justice warriors. Money still talks and today’s (younger?) consumers seem to lap it up. Hopefully, the tide will turn one day. One can dream.

Apologies for anyone it offends but Ben and Jerry’s is shit food that is bad for you and I already don’t eat that kind of stuff. The Good Law Project though - awww still managing to grift their way through the hard earnt money of people who probably can’t afford it. The shysters.

Glad to see this thread here. I won't be buying.

Makes me nostalgic for the good old days when they were nothing but money grabbing bastards.

At least you knew where you were

Ben and Jerry's is ridiculously expensive.

I don't know why you'd still be eating it in order to boycott it!

Plenty of alternatives available

Oh dear, B&J.

Focus on bringing back The Full Vermonty (y’know, making tasty ice cream, which is what you’re meant to be doing) and stop making embarrassingly thick ‘we let the intern loose’ social media pronouncements on things you clearly don’t understand.

It’s good ice cream. I couldn’t care less about their politics.

Their virtue signalling is so transparent and cynical.

The comments on insta are probably 70/30 with the majority worshiping at the trans alter and fully supportive of B&J's post. I would imagine a younger audience on insta vs FB is the determining factor here.

I support trans rights as human rights, no idea why so many people have lost their heads and think that select group of people
deserve not only more rights than they had before, but also to trample on another group's rights. I know it's been said a million times on these pages but how is it so hard to go back to the days when there were 2 sexes and nobody would listen to a fool who suggested you could swap at will from one to t'other.

Well the comments on the FB page are actually pretty reassuring. Majority in support of the SC ruling and the majority of those putting forward their views in a reasonable way.

Sunlight, sunlight....

No problem (I will boycott) as I rarely buy it and the last time I had a tub I was physically sick for ages (might be Me rather than a Them problem but that alone stopped Me buying it)

Ben and Jerry, the company, have been vile to women for years. I never bought their stuff anyway as I thought it was rubbish.

If a brand wants to erode my right to single sex spaces I will fully exercise my right to erode their profit margin. They might think about investing in people who understand brand management, and legal representatives who actually understand the law.
I guess I’ll check out the other Unilever brands too.