Friday, November 8, 2019

"Is Ben & Jerry's misleading consumers? Lawsuit says 'happy cow' representation not quite true" (UNA:EN Amsterdam)

Apparently only some of the cows are happy.
Many of the rest are moody through morose to borderline suicidal while some turn it outward into hostility and violence. Plotting and scheming in their herds and hordes.
So much for that placid, benign ruminator image.

From the, Nov. 7:
Is Ben & Jerry's misleading its customers about the type of milk and cream used in its ice cream? 
Environmental advocate and former gubernatorial candidate James Ehlers says yes, and that its parent company, Unilever, is profiting because of the false advertising, according to a recent lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington. 

According to the federal complaint, filed Oct. 29, Winooski resident Ehlers alleges that Unilever violated its customers' trust by saying Ben & Jerry's products were made with milk and cream sourced from "happy cows" on Vermont dairy farms that participate in its humane "Caring Dairy" program.

Only a minority of the cream and milk used in the ice cream comes from these types of farms, the complaint alleges....
....MUCH MORE, including a discussion of what makes a cow happy and Unilever's culpability in the alleged bovine distress.