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Tapati
tapati
31 August 2011 @ 08:10 am
Is there slavery in your chocolate?  
Companies like Mars, Hershey, and Nestle often say that there is no way they can control the labor practices of their suppliers. But there are other chocolate companies who manage to do so, and it would seem that if the bigger companies really wanted to reform problems in the supply chain, they have the power and ability to do so.

There are in fact many chocolate companies who according to company correspondence use cocoa that has definitively not been produced with slave labor. These companies include Clif Bar, Cloud Nine, Dagoba Organic Chocolate, Denman Island Chocolate, Gardners Candies, Green and Black’s, Kailua Candy Company, Koppers Chocolate, L.A. Burdick Chocolates, Montezuma’s Chocolates, Newman’s Own Organics, Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, Rapunzel Pure Organics, and The Endangered Species Chocolate Company.

At present, no organic cocoa beans are coming from Ivory Coast, so organic chocolate is unlikely to be tainted by slavery. Newman’s Own Organics is one of the largest of the slavery-free companies. The company’s chocolate is purchased through the Organic Commodity Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It comes from Costa Rica where the farms are closely monitored.
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Long way around the sun: L--Lollipopvisualsyntax on August 31st, 2011 04:17 pm (UTC)
A lot of the "slave free" chocolate companies we buy anyway b/c the chocolate just tastes better.
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Tapatitapati on August 31st, 2011 11:41 pm (UTC)
I already buy some of those brands when I'm in a store that has them. But reading up on this made me decide to boycott some brands until they change the way they do business.
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