Members of a Vermont activist group called Migrant Justice protested at Ben & Jerry’s stores on Tuesday while the ice cream vendors were giving away free cones. The activists complained that the famously liberal company had yet to fulfill a pledge to use milk only from dairy farms that pay workers fair wages.
The company signed an agreement to do so as part of the group’s “milk with dignity” campaign in 2015. However, Ben & Jerry’s, which is part of Unilever, has yet to make changes to its supply chain, Migrant Justice says. Protesters from the group tried to use Tuesday’s giveaway to bring attention to their cause.
Ben & Jerry’s spokesman Rob Michalak conceded they the company made the agreement but told the Huffington Post that they still needed to “work through final details” of how to implement it, indicating that it was proving much harder to do than anticipated.
