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Yes Pecan! Ben & Jerry's In Hot Water for Influence Peddling

Company's Newest Flavor Causes Big Stir; Investigation Underway.... developing

 http://www.benjerry.com/features/yespecan/

With an  all-too-transparent effort at achieving undue influence with the new Obama Adminstration, Ben & Jerry may have step into one big pile of cow manure by naming their newest creation "Yes Pecan"  The legal ramifications are unclear pending a congessional investigation that is hastily being convened to assess possible lobbying and campaign law violations.  It is not clear whether this was Ben's idea or Jerry's but the two men have hired counsel to untangled what is at best going to be a public relations nightmare for the anthropomorphic marketing geniuses. According to sources, this comes at a particularly delicate moment as they are trying to influence EPA legislation on cow fart emissions that are increasingly seen as one of the greatest sources of carbon-induced  global warming. According to the UN study that lead to Al Gore's Nobel Prize :

All told, livestock are responsible for 18% of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide, according to the U.N. – more than all the planes, trains and automobiles on the planet.

There is speculation that the two men are trying to buy the manufacturer of anti-flatulent "beano" but but are facing an uphill battle in getting FTC and FDA approval. Hence this thinly veneered brown-nosing campaign to cozy up to the President-elect may ultimately backfire... developing

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/15/opinion/ed-methane15

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=are_cows_worse_than_cars