{"id":44923,"date":"2025-09-19T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crankers.com\/?p=44923"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:58:41","slug":"jerry-quits-ben-jerrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/jerry-quits-ben-jerrys\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry quits Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s after Unilever demands they chill the activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Unilever telling the famous ice cream brand to calm down on the wokeness and political issues, Jerry has decided to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s with a broken heart that I\u2019ve decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s.\u201d Wrote Jerry Greenfield, the co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream brand, on his X account.<\/p>\n<p>Greenfield\u2019s political and activist values clashed with the parent company, Unilever. The first clashes started in 2021, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/17\/ben-jerrys-jerry-greenfield-quits-in-independence-row-with-unilever.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s<\/a> said they would stop selling ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a response to the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone.\u201d Wrote Greenfield.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/watch\/embed\/3500\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Unilever telling the famous ice cream brand to calm down on the wokeness and political issues, Jerry has decided to leave. \u201cIt\u2019s with a broken heart that I\u2019ve decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s.\u201d Wrote Jerry Greenfield, the co-founder of &#8230; <a title=\"Jerry quits Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s after Unilever demands they chill the activism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/jerry-quits-ben-jerrys\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jerry quits Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s after Unilever demands they chill the activism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":44971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}