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How i fairtrade a scam? Please be aware that the market of cocoa is not an easy one and not very transparent. The Dutch TV maker Teun van der Keuken was devast

by mpol 6y ago

How i fairtrade a scam? Please be aware that the market of cocoa is not an easy one and not very transparent. The Dutch TV maker Teun van der Keuken was devastated by what he saw in Ivory Coast with a lot of child slavery going on. He started his own slavefree brand Tony Chocolonely, but even they have to admit they can not guarantee it is slavefree made, they can only strive for that. By the way, the people from Nestle just shrugged over the issue of child slavery. I am very happy to see good policy being applied in Africa, they need to do this more often and strongly. Europe and the US, governments and companies, have been pulling their strings far too long. I hope China can give them a sense of how they can fend better for themself.

DetroitThrow 6y ago
I didn't realize Tony Chocolonely was intended to be a slave free brand, I had bought it in Europe thinking it had a hilarious name and large size - the background of traditional brands sold in the US sounds horrific if he decided to make his own company based on what he saw, which haven't even penetrated our domestic market.
- pudhbithyftdti 6y ago
  You can purchase Chocolonely at Natural Grocers and Sprouts in the US, if they're in your area. It's the best quality chocolate I've ever purchased that didn't come from a chocolate shop, highly recommend it. Coco is sold on world markets as a commodity good. Suppliers can't know what country the beans originated. To get guaranteed slave-free chocolate you effectively have to create your own logistics for that specific purpose. Any chocolate producers that haven't done that will have some amount of slave-produced coco mixed into their supply chain.
devdas 6y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fairtrade-scam-when-comes-prices-paid-farmers-most-basic-petrutiu https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fairtrade-scam-when-comes-pri... https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/05/25/surprise-fairtrade-doesnt-benefit-the-poor-peasants/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/05/25/surprise...

by mpol 6y ago

DetroitThrow 6y ago

I didn't realize Tony Chocolonely was intended to be a slave free brand, I had bought it in Europe thinking it had a hilarious name and large size - the background of traditional brands sold in the US sounds horrific if he decided to make his own company based on what he saw, which haven't even penetrated our domestic market.

pudhbithyftdti 6y ago
You can purchase Chocolonely at Natural Grocers and Sprouts in the US, if they're in your area. It's the best quality chocolate I've ever purchased that didn't come from a chocolate shop, highly recommend it. Coco is sold on world markets as a commodity good. Suppliers can't know what country the beans originated. To get guaranteed slave-free chocolate you effectively have to create your own logistics for that specific purpose. Any chocolate producers that haven't done that will have some amount of slave-produced coco mixed into their supply chain.

devdas 6y ago

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fairtrade-scam-when-comes-prices-paid-farmers-most-basic-petrutiu https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fairtrade-scam-when-comes-pri... https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/05/25/surprise-fairtrade-doesnt-benefit-the-poor-peasants/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/05/25/surprise...