Links:
https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/
https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/
https://www.fairtrade.net/news/five-ways-fairtrade-supports-workers-rights
https://www.fairtrade.net/issue/environment
Two things I learned today that I didn’t know yet
- The Rainforest Alliance pays farms a much lower premium than FairTrade.
(But they have – or started out on the basis of – different objectives.) - Tony’s Chocolonely is a very good chocolate brand, in terms of FairTrade.
(It’s Dutch.)
I’ve typed the Dutch below into ChatGPT and asked it to translate because it saved me a lot of time. I’ve edited it slightly.
“Tony” comes from Teun van de Keuken, the journalist who investigated slavery in the chocolate industry in the TV show ‘De Keuringsdienst van Waarde’ from 2002 to 2007. He discovered that there are still (child) slaves working on cocoa plantations in West Africa and tried to initiate conversations with various chocolate companies about this. When they failed to respond, Teun decided to start making slave-free chocolate bars himself. He feels very lonely in his fight against slavery in the chocolate world, hence ‘Chocolonely’. Want to know more about it? Check it out here.
Eleven years ago, journalist Teun van de Keuken conducted research into slavery in the cocoa chain on the TV show ‘De Keuringsdienst van Waarde’. He made the shocking discovery that much of the chocolate found in our supermarkets is made by slaves, often children. Is that acceptable? Teun therefore set out to question various chocolate makers about this situation. Many of them evade the issue. So, he decided to take matters into his own hands. In November 2005, the first Fairtrade Tony’s Chocolonely bars rolled off the production line. In 2006, we registered with the Chamber of Commerce, and Tony’s Chocolonely became a reality: a chocolate company with the goal of eradicating slavery from the chocolate industry.
