People vow to boycott Ben & Jerry’s after ice cream company marks Canada Day by tweeting about ‘stolen land’
People are vowing to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after the corporate marked Canada Day by tweeting about “our home on stolen land.”
On Saturday, the enduring American ice cream maker tweeted out a name to motion, linking to a web based petition, urging Parliament “to disband C-IRG today!”
“Another day to talk about #LandBack and how we can support communities defending their land. Take action this Canada Day,” the corporate tweeted with a hyperlink to a kind.
The kind is a pre-worded letter to the federal authorities demanding the disbandment of RCMP’s controversial Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG). The job pressure has been criticized over its techniques and has been accused of violations of human rights, civil liberties and racist and violent assaults on Indigenous Peoples, journalists and protesters in British Columbia.
“British Columbia’s use of a police force to protect pipelines and logging projects, and suppress free speech represents a profound failure to deal with the climate emergency and protect Indigenous rights,” reads the petition letter on the ice cream firm’s web site. “I am joining many others who are calling for this new policing unit to be disbanded.”
Some social media customers vowed to boycott Ben & Jerry’s for “politicizing ice cream.”
“I prefer non-political ice cream, so I’ll take a hard pass on Ben & Jerry’s,” reads a remark.
“The action I plan on taking is to never ever buy your product again. Disgusting,” reads one other.
Some identified the ice cream-maker itself is on stolen land.
“I don’t want to point out the obvious but many Indigenous people are lactose intolerant. Your product gives us the [poops]. I’ll send my address where you can send our royalties to since you are on stolen land as well,” reads a tweet.
“Sure, you go first. #LandBack,” reads one other.
CTV News has reached out to Ben & Jerry’s Canadian mum or dad firm, Unilever, for touch upon the Canada Day tweet however has but to obtain a response.
In the U.S., the Vermont-based firm put out an identical assertion on Tuesday to mark America’s Independence Day.
“The United States was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This Fourth of July let’s commit to returning it,” reads the tweet.
The firm advised on its web site that Mount Rushmore could be an excellent place to begin earlier than outlining the historical past behind the enduring web site.
“Ah, the Fourth of July. Who doesn’t love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display? The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The U.S. was founded on stolen Indigenous land,” reads the message on the U.S. web site. “This year, let’s commit to returning it.”
