My daughter Mary has been researching the "dark" side of chocolate for her research paper she is doing for English. She has shared with me some great statistics and internet articles. I am going to pass them on to you. Here is the first one. It is from Equal Exchange which sells Fair Trade products. It is from 2008 but Mary's research has shown that there has not been much progress since this article was written. Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry
One interesting thing that I have noticed in my research and so has Mary that the European companies are far ahead of us in this topic. They have put pressure on the conventional manufacturers and some of them have responded with issuing some chocolate products that are fair trade certified. This shows that our consumer dollars can make a difference. Cadbury (based in Europe) announced that for its United Kingdom and Irish Markets it would convert its number one selling chocolate called Dairy Milk to Fair-Trade certified cocoa by the end of September 2010.
Hope you will take the time to read the article above. It is well written and not very long.
One interesting thing that I have noticed in my research and so has Mary that the European companies are far ahead of us in this topic. They have put pressure on the conventional manufacturers and some of them have responded with issuing some chocolate products that are fair trade certified. This shows that our consumer dollars can make a difference. Cadbury (based in Europe) announced that for its United Kingdom and Irish Markets it would convert its number one selling chocolate called Dairy Milk to Fair-Trade certified cocoa by the end of September 2010.
Hope you will take the time to read the article above. It is well written and not very long.
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