You also have Zotter in Austria
With quite a few Fair Trade/Organic certifications https://www.zotter.at/en/zotter-experience-world/philosophy
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Are there any chocolate companies with well-documented supply chains that don't use child labor, slave labor, or otherwise exploit cocoa producers? Because everything I've seen and heard tells me that its best to just not eat chocolate at all.
I'd say Tony's would be your best bet? Not using slave labor is their stated goal, no idea how much they stick to it in reality
I'll look closer at them, thank you!
they allow some percentage of slave labor iirc
Any of these vegan?
The dark almond sea salt from Tony's is. Ritter Sport and Lindt also have some vegan products, Haribo probably too.
Awesome! Thanks so much!
I can't recommend Tony's Chocolonely enough since they are the only chocolate maker that actively tries to act against exploitation of cocoa farmers by paying a higher price per kilo. There is a John Oliver Episode on them :)
Definition of a conundrum: the only place around me that sells Tony's chocolate is Wal-Mart.
Do they have an online store in the US?
They are great, here in my hometown (Nottingham, UK) we have a little place called Louisa's, and as far as I'm aware, she's the only vegan chocolate maker in the UK. She does direct trade with small family farms so that everyone gets paid fairly (direct trade > fair trade), she also knows a lot about the cocoa plant and so will visit her farmers to help them grow better beans and ensure these farms are run in an ethical fashion.
Her chocolate is absolutely divine too, if you can, order from her.
Warning, it's pricey, but hopefully you'll understand why!
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Be careful of Cadbury, for those considering.
In the US it is mostly Hershey's, everywhere else it's fine.
aldis home brand chocolate is fine
Ritter Sport is the best, fight me irl if you disagree
Now cross check that with https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies to trim down that list quite a bit.
At the very least stick to fair trade certified brands.
There are a lot of European brands missing on that website, and judging by the plethora of random small American ones, I assume it's probably because it's made by an American.
It also weirdly puts Tony's in the boycott section, when it's basically the only big brand trying to actively change their whole supply chain (there's still progress to be made, but putting it alongside Nestlรฉ? really?).
In any way, it's good advice in the end.
Despite numerous announced initiatives by companies profiting from child and slave labor, none have produced meaningful results. The underlying issue is the inability to ensure a true living wage for farmers, leading them to resort to unpaid child labor, while the industry strives to keep cacao prices at rock bottom.
The conclusion is clear: consumer-facing marketing claims unravel to reveal no substantial impact, leaving consumers susceptible to being "brandwashed." Until significant tangible changes are witnessed or an assurance of ethical practices throughout their operations is evident, Tonyโs Chocolonely remains excluded from the list.
They at least give a reason for Tony's to be on the boycott list. But then again, this is the last "news" article they published and it's now over two years old, so who can really say.
Oh, I did not catch that. It's entirely possible that Tony's being on the boycott list is based on outdated information. As far as I know it's just one person maintaining the page. I think you can also contact them.
Calling palm oil sugar chocolate is insane
Please avoid Nutella, Kinder and Ferrero products in general. They are known to source their cacao and nuts from child labour.
Also Nutella is like 2/3 palm oil, which destroys rainforests.
Also, Nutella adapts its recipe for different EU countries. The poorer countries get more sugar %. This was warned about in EU Parliament some time ago but I don't know if it's actually been put under control.
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Kinder is fairly terrible chocolate though, assuming it's even legal to call it that.
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the Ferrero brand make nutella and kinder bars, and they also financially support the zionist entity and their ongoing genocide of palestinians. If that's the kind of thing you'd rather not support i'd suggest avoiding ferrero (and nestle)
Plus they use a ton of palm tree oil, so there's the environmental impact in top of that.
I still wonder if Kinder means kinder in English or Kinder in German
The second one
It all makes sense now. ๐คฏ
Or just plainly and simply drop all those big chocolate brands. There is so many better, smaller chocolate brands in literally every european country.
Most of these aren't chocolate.
Either from a pretentious standpoint (Kinder? Nutella?) or realistic one (does Chupa Chups even make any chocolate items? Haribo *might*)
Instead of corporate, mass produced chocolates, please consider locally made, small batch chocolates if you truly want to support your chocolate industry. Also, its so much better.
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Knoppers is a drug and Iโm an addict
Isnt Cote dโor made in the chocolate capital that is Belgium?
Some of the others shown donโt even have the minimum cacao requirement to be legally sold as chocolate according to Belgium law.
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