Just now I happened onto an article which has left me fairly shaken...perhaps I am just naive or uniformed that I didn't know this was happening...child slave labor to grow and harvest cacao...2011 and children are still being sold into slave labor by impoverished villages for chocolate which ends up in our "wealthy" western diets.
I am shocked
I am horrified
I cannot not share this....
I will spare you the gritty pictures (you can find them yourself on the web as I did) but I will not spare the question: "Where does your chocolate come from?"
How do I stop this practice....first step for me - CONSUMER POWER! Buy only certified fair trade chocolate, cacoa powder and coffee or don't buy at all. (I have contacted Superfoods to find out the origins of their cacoa products.)
Next step - prayer and support for those who fight this horrible crime against children.
2 comments:
Hi Wendy! How do you buy the cacao from them? I went to the website but I don't see an options to buy and can you tell me what the price of the cacao is? Thank you
Hi Sonja
You can contact them via email from their site, but their products are widely available at health shops.
They have subsequently confirmed their cacao is from a sustainable fair trade organization in Equador who does not use slave labour - child or adult.
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