Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield has left the ice cream company after nearly 50 years at the global brand, citing a dispute with its parent company, Unilever.

In a resignation letter posted on Instagram by Ben Cohen on behalf of his co-founder, Greenfield said he can no longer “in good conscience” be employed by Ben & Jerry’s, and that the decision to resign was “one of the hardest and most painful” he has ever made.

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Unilever purchased Ben & Jerry’s in 2000 on the condition that it would safeguard the ice cream brand’s independence.

Since its founding in 1978, Ben & Jerry’s has positioned itself as a company at the forefront of social justice; however, in his statement, Greenfield says the basis of the agree

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