**Inside Ben & Jerry's Social Mission — Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/inside-ben-jerrys-social-mission/ Explore Ben & Jerry's social mission focusing on sustainable sourcing, fair trade, and environmental responsibility across their supply chain. ## Key Takeaways - Sustainability is embedded in every aspect of Ben & Jerry's business operations. - Caring Dairy program is a comprehensive effort to support sustainable family dairy farming. - Fair trade certification is a key strategy to ensure ethical ingredient sourcing. - Packaging and refrigeration innovations demonstrate commitment to reducing environmental footprint. - Linked prosperity ensures all stakeholders benefit fairly along the supply chain. ## What the video covers - Ben & Jerry's integrates social mission into business by leveraging resources to create positive social, economic, and environmental impact. - The Caring Dairy program supports family dairy farms to achieve sustainability through 11 key indicators including soil health and animal welfare. - Since 2010, the company has shifted to sourcing fair trade certified ingredients like vanilla, cocoa, coffee, and bananas to benefit growers. - Efforts continue to improve sourcing of challenging ingredients such as sugar by collaborating with industry stakeholders and NGOs. - Packaging uses FSC-certified paperboard to ensure sustainability in materials. - Energy-efficient, climate-neutral hydrocarbon freezers were introduced following EPA approval in 2011 to reduce environmental impact. - Ben & Jerry's approach covers the entire value chain from farm to freezer to container, emphasizing linked prosperity for all stakeholders. - The company continuously strives to make values-led business decisions that balance profit with social and environmental responsibility. ## Chapters 1. 00:00 Introduction to Ben & Jerry's Social Mission 2. 00:25 Building Sustainable Family Dairy Farms 3. 00:45 Caring Dairy Program and Its 11 Indicators 4. 01:14 Transition to Fair Trade Certified Ingredients 5. 01:40 Sourcing Challenges and Stakeholder Collaboration 6. 02:01 Sustainable Packaging and Energy-Efficient Freezers 7. 02:55 Comprehensive Approach to Values-Led Business Answers ## Questions about this video What is the Caring Dairy program? The Caring Dairy program is an initiative by Ben & Jerry's designed to help family dairy farms become more sustainable economically, environmentally, and socially through 11 key indicators such as soil health and animal welfare. Which ingredients does Ben & Jerry's source as fair trade certified? Ben & Jerry's sources vanilla, cocoa, coffee, bananas, berries, nuts, and various chunks and swirls as fair trade certified ingredients to support ethical and sustainable farming practices. How does Ben & Jerry's reduce its environmental impact in packaging and refrigeration? The company uses FSC-certified paperboard for sustainable packaging and has introduced hydrocarbon freezers that are climate-neutral and energy-efficient, approved by the EPA in 2011. ## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown 00:00 Speaker A [MUSIC PLAYING] Our approach to social mission is to see how the business can use its resources—which is its people, its money, its energy, its innovation—and determine how we can make values-led business decisions that can create positive social, economic, or environmental good. In the beginning, it was just, well, let's just buy our dairy from family farms. But over time, we thought, we have to really build on that and really help family dairy farms reach a sustainable level economically, environmentally, and socially. And so we, over time, came up with a program that we call—now we call it Caring Dairy. And Caring Dairy has 11 elements to it, or 11 indicators—everything from soil health, water health, animal welfare, farm economics. Our goal is that this program will help the farmers to—on their own—create a more sustainable farm environmentally, economically, and, to a large degree, socially. We made a major decision in 2010 to make a significant conversion to fair trade certified ingredients. And so for fair trade ingredients, we source vanilla, cocoa, coffee, banana. But there's also berries, and nuts, and things such as that, and all the chunks and swirls that are finished goods. And we work throughout that entire ingredient portfolio, and we're trying to figure out ways to source those ingredients in ways that create benefits to those that are growing, and harvesting, and bringing those to market. We haven't gotten totally there. You've got to work your way all the way through. There are ingredients, such as sugar. So we're working with key stakeholders in the sugar industry, and with NGOs, and others that can give us good insights as to how we might make better values-led decisions in sourcing sugar. We wanted to make sure that the materials that we're using for the pint container are more sustainable. So we have FSC-certified paperboard. And that's the Forest Stewardship Council certified program. At the end of 2011, the EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, signed a ruling that allowed us to take to the next level some freezers that we've been testing in the US. And they're hydrocarbon. These freezers are more climate-neutral, and actually much more energy-efficient. So this is the way we approach it. It's part of our business. It's part of our capitalism—all the way from the cow, to the freezer, to the container. And we look at all parts of our business. We never stop. Through a sense of linked prosperity, and being considerate of all the stakeholders, and making sure that everybody's making a reasonable profit along that value chain, that's just a model that can go into the distance and go into the future. [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:19 Speaker A or environmental good. In the beginning, it was just, well, let's just buy our dairy from family farms. 00:25 Speaker A But over time, we thought, we have to really build on that and really help family dairy farms reach a sustainable level economically, environmentally, and socially. 00:40 Speaker A And so we, over time, came up with a program that we call-- now we call it Caring Dairy. 00:45 Speaker A And Caring Dairy has 11 elements to it, or 11 indicators-- everything from soil health, water health, animal welfare, farm economics. 00:59 Speaker A Our goal is that this program will help the farmers to-- on their own-- create a more sustainable farm environmentally, economically, and, to a large degree, socially. 01:14 Speaker A We made a major decision in 2010 to make a significant conversion to fair trade certified ingredients. 01:23 Speaker A And so for fair trade ingredients, we source vanilla, cocoa, coffee, banana. But there's also berries, and nuts, and things such as that, and all the chunks and swirls that are finished goods. 01:40 Speaker A And we work throughout that entire ingredient portfolio, and we're trying to figure out ways to source those ingredients in ways that create benefits to those that are growing, and harvesting, and bringing those to market. 01:57 Speaker A We haven't gotten totally there. You've got to work your way all the way through. 02:01 Speaker A There are ingredients, such as sugar. So we're working with key stakeholders in the sugar industry, and with NGOs, and others that can give us good insights as to how we might make better values-led decisions in sourcing sugar. 02:17 Speaker A We wanted to make sure that the materials that we're using for the pint container are more sustainable. 02:22 Speaker A So we have FSC-certified paperboard. And that's the Forest Stewardship Council certified program. At the end of 2011, the EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, signed a ruling that allowed us to take to the next level some freezers that we've been testing in the US. 02:45 Speaker A And they're hydrocarbon. These freezers are more climate-neutral, and actually much more energy-efficient. So this is the way we approach it. 02:55 Speaker A It's part of our business. It's part of our capitalism-- all the way from the cow, to the freezer, to the container. 03:02 Speaker A And we look at all parts of our business. We never stop. Through a sense of linked prosperity, and being considerate of all the stakeholders, and making sure that everybody's making a reasonable profit along that value chain, that's just a model that can go into the distance 03:20 Speaker A and go into the future. 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