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Ben & Jerry's launches Donald Trump-inspired ice cream flavor, Pecan Resist

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Ben & Jerry’s  is launching a new flavor, Pecan Resist, which the company made to promote activism in the U.S. The Limited Batch flavor – chocolate  ice cream  with white and dark fudge chunks, pecans, walnuts and fudge-covered almonds – is part of the company’s campaign to "lick injustice and champion those fighting to create a more just and equitable nation for us all," it said Tuesday. Ben & Jerry’s is donating $25,000 to each of four organizations working on behalf of people of color, Native Americans' environmental justice and women – Color Of Change, Honor the Earth, Women’s March and Neta. The Burlington, Vermont-based business is using the new flavor to criticize some of President Donald Trump's recent pronouncements. "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...