Ethically sourced chocolate a big hit in Oz

[JanDutchy]

Source: ANI

Sydney, Mar 20 (ANI): Sales of ethically sourced chocolate in Australia have seen incredible growth of more than 1,500 percent in the past two years.

The sales figures for 2010 showed that Australians spent 87 million dollars on Fairtrade chocolate, where local suppliers buy only produce that does not exploit workers, compared with 50 million dollars on Fairtrade coffee, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

It was the first time that ethically sourced chocolate had overtaken coffee produced under the same conditions.


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[midnight]

1. What is ethically sourced chocolate?

[No Elephants]

2. You ask

interesting questions.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4779334

[Zephie]

3. Cocoa production has a history of human rights abuses, including extensive use of child slavery

Please take a moment to view this article:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/the_bitter_trut.php

It's very informative and will answer lots of questions about the ethics of chocolate production. It's a very dirty business, and when you truly know what's being done to people (and especially children) in Africa you might never pick up a Hershey bar again.

[JanDutchy]

4. Underway to answer: thé answer is on you and me : Fair Trade

On the way to 100% slave-free chocolate

Tony's Chocolonely has existed since 2005 and has been hard on the road to everyone of our super delicious chocolate to enjoy. We are in the bios, at your favorite coffee shop, at home, at the University, and online. We take nothing for granted, always want more from life and are curious. Comes by our roots, we are initiated by Teun of the kitchen, the TV program, the keuringsdienst van Waarde. Tony's puts you liked to thinking about the things in life, and that is always just a little bit different than others. That begins with the belief that we find that chocolate slave should be able to be freely created. Slave Free? Yep, because chocolate is not normal yummy, but if you know more about the chain of a large proportion of all chocolate, then there remains a bitter aftertaste.
Life on a cacao plantation is awful. Exploitation, forced to work and mistreatment are the order of the day. Child slaves are used to sometimes more than sixteen hours of continuous work. Disgusting malpractice so, in order for us to be able to make chocolate. If you know, then that reep different tastes!
Since 2002, try Tony's Chocolonely the cocoa to tackle crime. We do this with TV programs and research. We show how chocolate is made and who is involved in abuses. And we are the "Tony's in Africa" project started, to even better prices for cocoa farmers. It is time to chocolate-mafia to suppress. Because chocolate must be 100% can be made slave free! That is not easy, we can only tackle together: industry, Governments, and chocolate-fans.


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