Ben & Jerry's Founder Quits
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Chance the Rapper praised Ben & Jerry’s after its co-founder, Jerry Greenfield, announced his decision to leave the ice cream company.
Greenfield wrote in an open letter late Tuesday that he could no longer "in good conscience" remain an employee of the company.
Greenfield said the Vermont ice cream maker "has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power" by Unilever, the multinational corporation that bought Ben & Jerry's in 2000.
Jerry Greenfield said Ben & Jerry's parent company wouldn't let him defend "the rights of immigrants, women, and the LGBTQ community."
“I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben & Jerry’s,” Greenfield said in a letter posted on the website for the Free Ben & Jerry’s campaign. “Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power.”
Nearly half a century after they started their brand, cofounders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who resigned this week, have held to their progressive values.
It’s with a broken heart that I’ve decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben & Jerry’s. I am resigning from the company Ben and I started back in 1978.