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Speaker 1: Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's built their brand on

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Speaker 1: ice cream and activism. Even though they are a corporation,

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Speaker 1: they are the darlings of the left, or at least

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Speaker 1: they used to be. A couple of years ago, Ben

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Speaker 1: and Jerry's signed on with the Milk with Dignity program.

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Speaker 1: It was started by Migrant Justice, a lefty group in Vermont.

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Speaker 1: Vermont happens to be where Ben and Jerry's gets eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of the milk for their ice cream, and for

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Speaker 1: the last two years, the Milk with Dignity people have

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Speaker 1: been negotiating with Ben and Jerry's for higher wages, better

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Speaker 1: working conditions, and better housing for the farm workers. They

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Speaker 1: haven't come to an agreement, and now there's been an eruption.

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Speaker 1: This past Saturday, scores of dairy farm workers and activists

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Speaker 1: marched on Ben and Jerry's. Farm Workers complained they've been

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Speaker 1: negotiating in good faith, but Ben and Jerry's is giving

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Speaker 1: them the runaround. A company spokesman says getting a good

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Speaker 1: deal is complex because it's got to work for farmers

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Speaker 1: and farm owners and the ice scream business. Ben and

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Speaker 1: Jerry you expect the poor farm hands that you exploit

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Speaker 1: to believe it's complex to improve their wages and working

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Speaker 1: conditions in housing. You're making ice cream for crying out

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Speaker 1: loud and billions on the backs of migrant workers while

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Speaker 1: they have to march on rocky roads to find justice.

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Speaker 1: What delicious irony. And the left is still going to

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Speaker 1: keep buying this stuff. It's not going to bother them

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Speaker 1: at all. You watch h