Enjoy chocolate with a clear conscience
(April 8, 2024)Find out which chocolate brands and distributors have the most ethical supply chains.
Tag: Chocolate
Good chocolate
(December 8, 2022)As christians, our chocolate buying and eating habits can make an enormous difference, good or bad, to families living on the other side of the world.
Help end child labour in the chocolate industry
(April 3, 2020)Child labour and underpaid farmers are common in the chocolate industry. Chocolate companies promise to do better, so let’s encourage them to do so!
Buy only "good" chocolate for a month
(November 6, 2019)Monthly challenge November challenge It’s not such a hard challenge, really. Eating chocolate I mean. But the good news is that it’s also not so hard to eat “good” (i.e. ethical) chocolate these days. If you don’t want to be complicit in slavery, child labour, poor working conditions for poor workers or unsustainable practices (and […]
Begin to combat slavery
(April 16, 2013)Yesterday I outlined some terrible facts about modern-day slavery (People shouldn’t be bought and sold). But what can we practically do?
People shouldn't be bought and sold
(April 15, 2013)When I was at school, we were taught about how slavery was abolished in Britain and the USA. This was obviously a good thing. It came as a shock to find out, some years ago now, that there are more slaves in the world than ever before.
Tony's Chocolonely – serious chocolate!
(January 8, 2013)Regular readers will know that one of my ’causes’ is ethical chocolate – chocolate that is grown by free farmers who are paid a fair wage, and not by trafficked children working more or less as slaves. (For background, see Ethical chocolate update.) So it was with great delight that I received a weighty package […]
A small victory in the fight against child slavery
(July 18, 2012)There has been a long campaign for chocolate companies to only source their cocoa from farms that don’t use trafficked child labour, and who pay the workers a fair wage. And progress has been slow. I have previously reported how I have joined many others in writing to chocolate companies here in Australia asking them […]
Ethical chocolate update
(May 16, 2012)I have previously reported on the ethical dilemmas posed by eating chocolate, due to the trafficking and exploitation of children in growing cocoa in West Africa (see My pleasure, their misery? and Easter eggs and slavery), and on the responses to my letters to chocolate manufacturers (see Fair Trade chocolate – report 1). I have […]
Easter eggs and slavery
(March 15, 2012)Easter’s coming soon, and if you live in the west as I do, you’ll probably be eating your share of easter eggs. But what if the eggs came from cocoa grown using child labour, that is effectively slave labour?