Could Ben & Jerry's Be Created Today? (Your Radical Questions with Ben Cohen)
6/8/202614 min
Amol is joined by Ben Cohen, one half of the team behind Ben & Jerry's ice cream, to answer your questions, such as whether ethics is more important to business success than a good product? Can companies be trusted to fulfil corporate responsibilities without government oversight? And how does he square his ethical stance with the fact that his ice cream is an ultra processed food?
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First 90 secondsAmol Rajan· Host0:00
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Amol Rajan· Host0:36
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Your Radical Questions. This is where I put your questions to some of our magnificent, and if I may say, inspirational, uh, Radical guests. It's your chance to engage very directly with them. Um, they are always super smart, interesting, influential, and they've thought very hard about how to make the world a better place, and that is definitely true of our very distinguished guest this week, uh, and indeed on last Thursday's episode. I hope you heard it. If you haven't, go back and listen to it. It is with one of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry's, Ben Cohen, who until he came into the studio, I hadn't thought, Cohen, you make ice cream- [laughing] ... cones. Nomitative determinism.
Ben Cohen· Guest1:23
Go figure.
Amol Rajan· Host1:24
[laughing] Of course. Hence. Ben, it's wonderful to have you with us. Thank you so much. Um, we've had a load of questions from our listeners,