Today! Call Hannaford to demand Milk with Dignity

In our last post, we shared with you news about an exciting partnership with Vermont Way Foods to expand the Milk with Dignity Program. In the coming months, cheese bearing the Milk with Dignity logo will be sold in stores around the region. This coming Friday – the eighth anniversary of the first agreement with Ben & Jerry’s – we will be celebrating the partnership with a pre-launch product tasting!

The entrance of a new company into the Milk with Dignity Program highlights the continued failure of Hannaford Supermarket to take responsibility for abuses and human rights violations in its dairy supply chain. As one of the largest dairy buyers in the Northeast, Hannaford has a tremendous opportunity to drive positive change in the industry by joining the Milk with Dignity Program.

Join with campaign supporters today to call Hannaford and demand Milk with Dignity. Make your call now!

Throughout the day, hundreds of Milk with Dignity supporters will flood Hannaford’s phone lines urging the company to join Milk with Dignity. Over the course of the campaign, Hannaford has received thousands of calls in solidarity with the human rights of farmworkers. These calls – along with thousands of customer emails; endorsement letters from faith communities, shareholders, and civil society organizations; and dozens of farmworker-led protests – have forced Hannaford to make important concessions.

Feeling pressure from workers, consumers, and investors, Hannaford’s parent company commissioned an independent investigation into human rights conditions in its dairy supply chain. This is a welcome step, but we won’t be satisfied until the company takes concrete action. The farmworkers behind Hannaford-brand milk have not only documented the abuses in the company supply chain, they have presented the solution: the worker-driven MIlk with Dignity Program.

Make your call to Hannaford today, then – if you haven’t already! – join thousands of others signing the Hannaford Consumer Pledge.

Together we can fight for a future where all workers’ rights are protected and where everyone can live and work with dignity.