People vow to boycott Ben & Jerry's after ice cream company marks Canada Day by tweeting about 'stolen land'

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People are vowing to boycott Ben & Jerry's ice cream after the company marked Canada Day by tweeting about 'our home on stolen land.'

"British Columbia’s use of a police force to protect pipelines and logging projects, and suppress free speech represents a profound failure to deal with the climate emergency and protect Indigenous rights," reads the petition letter on the ice cream company's website. "I am joining many others who are calling for this new policing unit to be disbanded.

""I prefer non-political ice cream, so I’ll take a hard pass on Ben & Jerry’s,""The action I plan on taking is to never ever buy your product again. Disgusting," reads another."I don't want to point out the obvious but many Indigenous people are lactose intolerant. Your product gives us the [poops].

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