alnilam posted:

This might be controversial but personally i think slavery is pretty bad... I appreciate Tony for speaking his mind about this

blaise rascal posted:

Is Tony's the only assurance that the chocolate is more ethically produced?

Tony posted:

"Since 2012 we have been buying our cocoa directly from cocoa farmers in West Africa who we know personally. More specifically, we buy our cocoa from two farming co-ops in Africa: ABOCFA in Ghana and Ecookim in Ivory Coast. ABOCFA includes 400 farmers from 13 villages, and Eccokim 350 farmers, most of them from the village of Blaiskero Sud. We have established long-term relationships with these farmers and buy directly from them, which is the first critical step towards 100% slave-free chocolate. It guarantees them fair prices for their beans and financial stability so they can invest in their own futures. That’s good for the farmer, his family and his employees and their families. What’s in it for you? Delicious fully traceable 100% slave-free chocolate."

joke_explainer posted:

I had the same concern and googled him before I made the thread just to make sure it wasn't all marketing. It looks somewhat legit. The producer has been at this for some time, and was dealing with it before he even started really making his own brand, famously suing himself for knowingly purchase a product of slave labor after he ate several pounds of chocolate in a publicity stunt, trying to raise awareness.


They use 100% traceable sources to their chocolate, something that is pretty difficult to do, and are 'fair trade certified', though they acknowledge that's not quite enough and are going beyond that. More information can be found on the internet.

i flunked out posted:

I appreciate that chocolate bar and will look for one next time i get a hankering. what other flavors did they have?

joke_explainer posted:

dark almond sea salt, dark pecan coconut (really good!)

Nosfereefer posted:

the fact that its reliant on slave labor doesnt help this

no they will not posted:

I read the anti-slavery chocolate wrapper and it made me think that slavery was bad but later that day I read a chocolate wrapper that said that slavery was good so unfortunately I now think that slavery is really good

no they will not posted:

treasure bear posted:

i will never take orders from a kinder bueno

Luvcow posted:

I eat chocolate harvested by white slaves with black masters because it helps to balance the karma

joke_explainer posted:

tony's chocolonely:









anyway I thought it was pretty great. the label reads like, 'hey kids? you like chocolate? Yeah? What about slavery.' It's also exceptionally good chocolate and I recommend it to anybody who likes chocolate, which is almost everybody.

no they will not posted:

Yesterday was a hassle, got trapped in a room with multiple instances of the AND, OR, XOR and NOT chocolate bars and was tricked into performing several menial yet increasingly complex tasks

drilldo squirt posted:

You know what, making people feel like they are doing something to help others by buying your stuff has got to one of the evilest ways out their to sell things.

joke_explainer posted:

I would agree if it wasn't actually helping people. Overall, we can't use capitalism to solve the problems of capitalism, but a good interim step is try to cut out the worst abuses in the system. The guy has been a chocolate activist for far longer than he actually has made chocolate. If you can choose between a company that is using a slave labor and a company that isn't in your purchasing, isn't it less evil to choose the company that isn't using slave labor?

Piso Mojado posted:

no, because it makes ppl think that they are actually helping slave children when in reality it doesnt on any significant level and anesyhtizes you from actually doing something impactful instead of just eating chocolate.