Vermont's long-lived appreciation of dairy no doubt helped promote the home-grown qualities of what once passed as artisanal ice cream in America--but has the social mission trumpeted by the famed ice-cream maker become a brand divorced from its local origins? The acquisition and distribution by Unilever seems curiously tied to the new geography of "scoop shops" in the Green Mountain State, and the questions that have been raised about the work conditions of the dairy farmers on whose labor what was once celebrated as "Vermont's Finest" depends. Continue reading ![]()
