Ben Cohen
speaker
1,024 appearances
9 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Ben Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And...
took the photo.
helped the business.
What ended up happening is that because of that social mission, because we were trying to use our business to improve the quality of life for the community, as opposed to the normal business, which is trying to extract as much as it can out of the community and maximize profits.
We were trying to, I mean, that was the deal talking to Maurice.
It was the question of
Is it possible that business is actually a neutral tool like a hammer and you can use it to destroy things or you can use it to build things?
So we started using it to build things.
We started using it to support the community.
You know, in the early days when we were just a little homemade ice cream parlor, we were
producing these free community festivals that had still walking contests.
And we had a frog jumping contest.
Jerry's wife went out and caught all the frogs.
And as the business got larger, we started taking stands and positions on important issues.
A full page letter in the New York Times
calling on the president and Congress not to go to war in Iraq.
That was the first Iraq war.
Mostly people are buying products from businesses in spite of what the business stands for.
And at Ben and Jerry's,
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