4. Values-Led Sourcing >
4.1 Milk and Cream
The St. Albans Co-0p
The St. Albans Cooperative Creamery in Vermont, made up of over 500 family farms, has been our partner 
and primary supplier of cream and condensed milk ingredients for over 20 years. The Coop is a member-owned business whose farmers have direct influence over their operations and their profit allocations.
Over two decades, we’ve helped to provide a market for Vermont’s dairy farmers with our milk and cream purchases from the Coop. At the same time, the family farmers in the St. Albans Coop have played a big role in preserving Vermont’s rural heritage and in upholding many of the values we believe in.
Ben & Jerry’s pays a premium to the farmers of the St. Albans Coop for their pledge not to treat the cows that produce our milk and cream with rBGH, a genetically engineered growth hormone used to increase milk production. 
We oppose the use of rBGH because we believe it is a step in the wrong direction toward a synthetic, chemically-intensive, factory-produced food supply. All of our ice cream pints contain a statement of our position on rBGH.
The Coop is our partner in the Dairy Stewardship Alliance, a unique program that helps farmers move toward more sustainable practices on the farm.