Colin Kaepernick Launches a Vegan Ben & Jerry's Flavor and an Impossible Foods Partnership

Vegan quarterback Colin Kaepernick now has his own Ben & Jerry's flavor, and it is completely dairy-free. Change the Whirled was unveiled on Thursday, December 10, People reports, and 100% of Kaepernick's share of the proceeds goes to his Know Your Rights Camp Foundation.

The pint has a non-dairy caramel sunflower butter base swirled with fudge chips, graham crackers and chocolate cookies. People notes the dessert is vegan, like Kaepernick himself. It joins Ben & Jerry's permanent range in January, at about $5 a pint in grocery stores across the US.

I'm honored to partner with Ben & Jerry's on Change the Whirled. Their commitment to challenging the anti-Black roots of policing in the United States demonstrates a material concern for the wellbeing of Black and Brown communities.

It is the second plant-based partnership of the year for Know Your Rights Camp, which Kaepernick founded in 2016. In July, Impossible Foods teamed up with the camp to donate plant-based meat to communities in need, VegNews reported. The first meals were handed out from the Al Pastor Papi food truck at a church in San Francisco's Bayview District, with more donations planned for Los Angeles and New York. Impossible said it aimed to feed at least one million people by the end of the year.

Kaepernick has eaten vegan since 2016. That year he said he had switched nine months earlier to help him recover from injuries, Wikipedia notes.

Kaepernick was given Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award in 2018. Impossible has had quite a run since Burger King rolled out the Impossible Whopper nationwide, and in the spring plant-based meat sales surged 264% in nine weeks.

Dairy-free and in the freezer aisle from January. We'll take two pints.