{"id":37584,"date":"2019-11-20T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37584"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:23:12","slug":"i-guess-there-just-isnt-any-truth-in-advertising-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37584","title":{"rendered":"I Guess There Just Isn’t Any Truth In Advertising These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about a recent lawsuit against ice cream makers Ben & Jerry. Ben & Jerry’s owners are liberals who very openly support liberal causes. Their advertising claims that in harmony with their ideas about the humane treatment of animals ans the environment, their ice cream is made from milk from happy cows. I never really considered the emotional well being of the cows that supplied the milk for my ice cream, but I suppose it is a somewhat valid concern. Well, evidently all of the milk does not come from happy cows.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Since most of this week in Washington is already shaping up to be a festival of the ridiculous, we may as well toss a few more logs on the bonfire. Up in Vermont, Ben & Jerry\u2019s, the famously liberal ice cream company, is being taken to court over fraudulent advertising, along with its parent company, Unilever. But this suit has nothing to do with the quality or safety of their product. An environmentalist is suing them because of their advertisements claiming that their creamy products are made from milk from \u201chappy cows.\u201d Not so, says the plaintiff! Apparently, many of the cows are simply miserable<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben & Jerry\u2019s and parent company Unilever are being sued for false advertising by an environmental advocate who claims the milk and cream used to make flavors like Phish Food are deceptively marketed as coming from \u201chappy cows.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a complaint filed Oct. 31 in federal court in Burlington, Vermont, where Ben & Jerry\u2019s was founded, environmental advocate James Ehlers accuses the company and Unilever of deceiving consumers who buy the ice cream because of its pastoral and progessive image.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the past several years, Unilever has breached consumer trust by representing the Ben & Jerry\u2019s Products as being made with milk and cream sourced exclusively from \u201chappy cows\u201d on Vermont dairies that participate in a special, humane \u201cCaring Dairy\u201d program,\u201d the lawsuit claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that less than half of the milk used is from the “Caring Dairy” program.<\/p>\n

The article explains the program (and the problem):<\/p>\n

USA Today looked into the question<\/a> and found that the Caring Dairy program is indeed real. In order to qualify, farms have to follow certain regulations for how the cows are raised and what sort of environmental \u201ccarbon footprint\u201d the operation has. But it\u2019s not all that large, with only 65 farms in the Netherlands and the United States qualifying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even if Ben & Jerry\u2019s had cornered the market on all of them, they probably wouldn\u2019t produce enough milk to meet their needs. The company claims they \u201chope\u201d to work with more farms like these going forward, but it certainly sounds as if they\u2019re not using 100% \u201chappy cow\u201d milk. So maybe the plaintiff is correct.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am strongly in favor of treating animals humanely. However, I also believe that animals are not people. What we need here is a sense of balance.<\/p>\n

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