In two weeks it will be Valentine's
Day. Roughly 6 weeks after that it will be Easter. What food comes
to mind for those two celebrations? If you are anything like me it
is chocolate (the more the better).
But chocolate comes with a cost. And I
don't mean the extra waistline.
Were you aware that a large percentage
of the world's chocolate production relies on slave labour in the
growing and harvesting of the cocoa beans? If you had a choice would
you buy chocolate that came from sources that paid their labour a
fair, living wage?
Such a choice is possible. Rather than
tell you what to buy I ask that you Google “fair trade chocolate”
and read for yourself about the issue. If we continue to support
companies that do not pay attention to how their raw materials are produced then
we enable them to continue to profit off the lives of others. It can
even be said that we ourselves are accomplices in the modern slave
trade.
This year, as we feed our chocaholism
(and I am definitely an addict) may we all pause and consider where
our chocolate comes from. And maybe we have the power to choose to
support fair labour practices and fair prices. Who is in it with me?
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