Ben and Jerry's Go Political

Now who doesn't love the ice cream called Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's incorporated is here not only to deliver fresh delicious ice cream to people all over the world, but they have other ideas in mind to benefit the economy. Their success in the ice cream BIZ is this the beginning.

I was watching a documentary on the Bio channel and it was showing a documentary on Ben and Jerry's. The documentary showed their struggles for success and their glory of becoming one the most popular food companies in the world. But it also showed their political viewpoints on how our economy is doing. Their mission is to promote social and environmental progress.

To ensure the environmental success, all products are made from recycled material. And all products are made with energy efficient machines. Their mission is to cut down on green house emissions. In the year 2002, over 22,000 tons were taken out from the air due to Ben and Jerry's environmental mission. What caught my attention the most was Ben's presentation he made to high ranking politicians.

For his argument he used a poster board and Oreo cookies. Each OOreo cookie represented 10 billion Dollars. His argument was for better funding for the things that are most important to society, such as education and health care. He set up his prop, Health care Education Living Military etc. Ben placed 42 cookies on our military, Our government is spending 420 billion dollars on military and homeland security. He compared our spendings with our worthy advisory Russia, they are only spending 7 cookies on their military. He then goes on to place half of an Oreo on Education and only a couple on Health care and around 15 on living. He then goes on and explains that Why does the Military need so much funding and why does something so important as Educationa and Health care receive so little. He does an experiment by taking 1 cookie from the military and placing it with education. Ben then explains that with this extra funding, it will pull every school out of economic issues and give them proper educational skills within the next 12 years. He then takes several off of military and on to health care, and explains that this extra funding could be used to help save lives and not take them. His argument was very interesting and powerful. Reading it from this blog says very little about it.

Why does America spend extreme amounts on Military and so few amounts on the most important things like health care and education?