Ben Cohen
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Jun
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Radical · Could Ben & Jerry's Be Created Today? (Your Radical Questions with Ben Cohen) · 8 Jun 2026
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They're indifferent.
And 30% don't really like the social stands, but the company continues to grow.
What we've noticed is that as the company takes more and more stands on political issues and how it uses its power, you know, for economic, social, racial justice,
if we continue to sell more and more ice cream.
No, I think you can do it at the very beginning.
You know, that's what Ben and Jerry's did, and it seems to have worked.
Actually, I think it's harder if you add it later on.
If it was insincere or something?
I don't know.
It's not necessarily insincere, but the basis of your business, it's the idea of that thing about mission.
that from the beginning, if your mission is about serving the needs of society along with serving great food, you don't have to change.
It's the idea that you have a two-part mission and you need to do both of them from the beginning.
Well, I think it's both.
I think the reality is that government is the biggest lever that we've got.
And so I think that advocacy, that businesses advocating for the government to adopt policies that have those social benefits is a very important role for business to play.
I mean, you know, the reality is that businesses
business is incredibly political.
It's business that pays for donations, campaign donations to politicians.
It's business that pays for lobbyists that control our laws.
It's business that controls the media.
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