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Ben & Jerry's
Ben & Jerry’s has meaningful worker protections, but its foundation faces a funding dispute. We examine what survives the move to Magnum ownership.
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Farmer livelihoods, pricing, packaging and the companies behind familiar foods.
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Cheerios
Cheerios examined beyond the healthy-family image: different recipes, a past protein-label settlement, agricultural commitments and General Mills/Nestlé ownership.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola’s recycling commitments, plastic footprint and pricing examined, including the EU action over bottle claims and the limits of its current targets.
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Danone
Danone’s ethics assessed through its plastic lawsuit settlement, dairy methane commitments and the history of Activia health advertising.
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Hellmann's
What Hellmann’s cage-free promise means, what its food-waste study actually tested, and why the announced McCormick deal has not yet changed ownership.
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Lay's
Lay’s 2026 price cuts, a resolved factory strike, a dated allergen recall and PepsiCo’s packaging commitments assessed without confusing parent and product.
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Oreo
Oreo’s vegan claims are only part of its ethics. Examine Mondelēz’s EU competition fine, cocoa programme and forest-rights criticism before buying.
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Pepsi
Pepsi’s ethics examined through PepsiCo’s abandoned reuse target, supply-chain transparency and the dismissed US pricing lawsuit.
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