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Ben & Jerry's launches ice cream flavor critical of Trump

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Ben & Jerry’s new flavor Pecan Resist is aimed at President Donald Trump.

"The company cannot be silent in the face of President Trump’s policies that attack and attempt to roll back decades of progress on racial and gender equity, climate change, LGBTQ rights, and refugee and immigrant rights – all issues that have been at the core of the company’s social mission for 40 years," Ben & Jerry's said in a statement.

The company also intends to donate $25,000 to each of the four organizations working on behalf of people of color, Native Americans' environmental justice and women. They are Color Of Change, Honor the Earth, Women’s March and Neta.

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