I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM.
good news, you can! the company’s called Tony’s Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.
Whole Foods carries it. If you don’t want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company.
It’s the best chocolate I’ve ever had and it’s 100% slave free. Tony’s Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. They’re good people who make good chocolate.
As a side note, if you have limited shopping options and can’t find these specific companies, some tips for finding chocolate less likely to have been produced by slave labor:
* Certified organics undergo more oversight altogether and that process makes it harder for sketchy practices to slip through
* The Ivory Coast is known to have the worst conditions, so if you can find origin information on otherwise unvetted chocolate, knowing that it didn’t come from there is also valuable.
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