texas but boycotting the west bank essentially this full boils down to well we're not gonna not make money are you crazy ben and jerry's woke co-founders ben cohen and jerry greenfield are taking heat for freezing when asked why they ice cream company they found it stopped selling its products in parts of israel over political issues yet continues to do business in the united states where they disagree with laws in july the vermont-based ice cream company announced that they would stop selling ice cream in the quote occupied palestinian territory because it was inconsistent with the company's values let me be very clear about why they did that because that was the prevailing wind on twitter but when asked whether the company would extend its boycott practice to other jurisdictions like u.s states where there are policies that aren't in line with their beliefs of the company conan greenfield who no longer control ben and jerry's but remain the public face didn't have an answer you guys are big proponents of voting rights why do you still sell your ice cream in georgia texas abortion bans why are you still selling there axios alexie mccammon asked the two NUMBER_TOKEN year old entrepreneurs mccammon was referring to the sweeping overhaul of georgia's voting restrictions that could make it harder for some residents to cast ballots and spark backlash amongst many local businesses business communities earlier this year with regards to texas she was referring of course to the new law that took place there colin appeared taken aback before shrugging out and saying i don't know with a chuckle it's an interesting question i don't know what good that would accomplish we're working on those issues of voting rights i think you asked a really good question i think i have to sit down and think about it fraud oops oops oops fraud they never really cared about change they only talk about and do these types of things because idiots retweet them and think that they're sticking it to the man when they're buying their ice cream look i don't care if you enjoy ben and jerry's life is short i talk about this all the time when we roast like woke video game companies and you know i've grown a lot over the years and softened a little bit but also accepted the reality that life is short and you know sometimes you just want to play world of warcraft and regardless of how crummy the company is sometimes you like this particular bed and jerry's flavor that you can't get anywhere else and whatever but this interview is absolutely hilarious you can see this video the embarrassing moment when the owners of ben and jerry's have no answers as to why they boycott israel i mean it's it's like a complete and utter shutdown they're like uh uh uh i don't know well i don't know can mccammon continue to press the two men over a matter of texas and recently enacted laws by that reason and why should we not sell ice cream anywhere i've got issues with being done in almost every state and country coincide greenfield chimed in adding one thing that's different is that what israel
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