cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36143769
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
Surely they kind of knew what they were getting themselves into back in 2000 when they sold their company to Unilever? I know that was 25 years ago now. But multinational corporations have been acting this is way for a long time.
But especially Unilever. Pretty much the only way to fuck up worse would have been to sell to Nestle. Both are asshole companies that were known to remove and substitute cheaper ingredients in food and other products well before the year 2000.
Members of my family will literally go without rather than use a Unilever product.
Yes but have you considered