June 8th - CHOCOLATE

Long story short on chocolate:

• It has a long, messy history of slavery, despair, and pain.
• Human/child trafficking in the chocolate industry still happens today. (article)(actual report)
  
• No easily-available chocolate is fair trade. (another article)
  
• If you already buy higher end-chocolate, the price difference for fair trade is very close.
• Cocoa travels a LONG WAY to get to your lips!
  
• Most organic chocolate is fair trade.
• Not all fair-trade chocolate is organic.
  
• Eating less chocolate can help you afford fair-trade.
• You gotta taste Single-origin anything!

Good Chocolate Reads:

• Bitter Chocolate - Carol Off
• The Bittersweet World of Chocolate, Recipes using fair trade chocolate - Troth Wells
• Article on Blossoming chocolate culture in Asia
  

Fair Trade Co-op and Union Chocolate Links:

• The National Confederation of Dominican Cocoa Producers (Wicked photo gallery, if you want to see how cacao is grown!)
• Yachana Foundation
• La Siembra Co-op
  

Organic Chocolate Links:
(All of these, with the exception of SOMA are available at The Bulk Zone, and all health food store in town!)

Dagoba Chocolate
Endangered Species Chocolate
SOMA
Cocoa Camino




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