Mean Streets

We all have the right to hold opinions, even silly ones, which means the Streets icecream company is entirely free to promote its products by scoffing at climate sceptics and hyping a problem that doesn’t exist. Annoying and alienating a large slice of your potential market seems a dubious corporate strategy, but that is a matter for shareholders to ponder.

And as consumers, those of us who understand that global temperatures have defied all the warmists’ “evidence” and predictions to remain more-or-less flat over the past two decades are just as free to scorn Cornettos, Magnums, Gaytimes and all the other frozen treats listed at the corporate website.

Streets’ corporate parent, Unilever, solicits feedback from customers. Why not give them some? Mind you, it probably won’t do any good, as CEO Paul Polman is one of those main-chancers who swan and skite at the UN, Davos and the like about all the wonderful ways in which his outfit battles CO2 and honours Gaia.

What he has been markedly less keen to mention in his speeches is the genuine problem of the tonnes of mercury an Indian subsidiary dumped in the town of Kodai.

Follow the link below for more on that. And if you fancy a summer treat, Peters Drumsticks have never been known to deliver unwanted lectures about non-existent threats to the planet.

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