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Ben Cohen

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624 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

And, you know, we've been saying, no, Ben & Jerry's is the victim here.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

If you do want to boycott something, other Magnum products, that would be the thing to stop buying in protest.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You know, there's more and more.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

people asking us to start a boycott.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

And we've been kind of resisting that, hoping that Magnum is going to see the light, but it's harder and harder to hold back that impetus.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

My guess is that a boycott is going to happen at some time.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

No, I don't think the Democratic Party is getting it.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I think that there are a few politicians that...

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

that end up running as Democrats that get it.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You know, there's, of course, Bernie, there's Mamdani, there's a guy, Tallarico, in Texas, and a guy in Maine, Plattner, that are running on platforms that are about justice and running the country in a way that benefits

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

the huge majority of people in the country instead of just the donors.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I mean, the politicians in general in the country don't represent the people, they represent the money.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

That's a huge problem.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I think you can.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You know, it's interesting.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I was recently reading a book of quotes from Robert F. Kennedy.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

called Make Gentle the Life of This World.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

Looking at those quotes, what he was focused on was pretty much the issue of poverty and racism.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

It was beautiful to read what he was saying about how

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

In our country, we can't have people that are hungry, that we can't have people that can't afford a decent place to live.