According to Breitbart, Ben & Jerry’s is no stranger to social activism. “In May, the company announced that proceeds from its new flavor of ice cream, ‘Empower Mint,’ would help benefit the North Carolina NAACP’s campaign to repeal the state’s voter ID law.” More from Breitbart:
Socially conscious ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s faces calls for a boycott after the company announced its support for the Black Lives Matter protest movement this week.
“Systemic and institutionalized racism are the defining civil rights and social justice issues of our time,” the Vermont-based company said in a statement posted on benjerry.com. “We’ve come to understand that to be silent about the violence and threats to the lives and well-being of black people is to be complicit in that violence and those threats.”