• Varyk
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    11 months ago

    Also known as slaves, since they are not paid, not allowed to go to school or leave, and beaten and cut as punishment.

    Stop eating slave chocolate, folks.

    There is ethical chocolate available.

    • Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Ok, where?? So I was already avoiding Nestle, now I find out Mars is in on this shit too. Is there any chocolate I can eat that isn’t born from child slave labor? Are Reese’s ok? I just want chocolate without supporting literal slavery.

      Edit: just saw your other comment

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        Most supermarkets these days have ethical chocolate alternatives. Their brands aren’t as well-known so you might not notice them unless you’re looking for them, that was my case.

        Then the first time I looked for ethical chocolate, chocolonely was right there on display in the first Safeway I walked into.

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      11 months ago

      What if we keep eating slave chocolate, but we make the slave owners buy “freedom cocoa” credits from places where cocoa is being farmed ethically already?

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        Then we’ll be prolonging unnecessary child slavery and abuse.

        They’re slave owners, their profit margin is pretty wide and their industry standards are not very strict, as you might imagine.

        The most effective way to end trafficking/slavery linked to chocolate is to stop buying slave chocolate.

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      11 months ago

      It’s fine because the slaves are in the other country and we get to call ourselves pioneer of human rights and green power to live guilt free. It’s totally not by design, no sir.

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        11 months ago

        Idk what you mean by “other country.”

        Are those like big, not-here states?