Ice cream is sweet, but the politics of ice cream can be awfully bitter.
Chrystie Heimert, a spokeswoman for the Burlington, Vt.-based creamery, says the fact that dioxin can be found in its ice cream shows the importance of reducing industrial emissions of the chemical. And that's precisely what Milloy wants people to hear. The pair reported those results last year. The firm also tested several other national brands of ice cream, and repeated the tests with gas chromatography, and turned up similar amounts of the toxin. It also occurs naturally through forest fires and other combustion.