Fair Trade Chocolate

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[Nienke3892]

Does anyone know what the price is the slaves are getting paid, the costs for the transport is, the farmers earn and the multinationals earn? I would be pleased if someone would answer.

[Absolute2k7]

@Nienke3892 Watch the doco The dark side of chocolate this will have all the info. From off the top of my head 230 Euros for a child to be shipped across the boarder

[wootlanter]

Poor children. If it weren't for all this evil cocoa gathering, they'd be living in a totally free in a paradise of happiness

[Taytay767]

i will no longer eat chocolate and pass this on! Horrible!

[popancake]

I had know idea about any of this and I love chocolate.

Thankyou for posting

[LegendaryModsTM]

This has false information in it. Mars has committed to practicing fair trade. Enjoy your Twix

[superawesomekirst]

@LegendaryModsTM Yeah, I know I'm sorry, but I made this video almost 3 years ago. Cadbury is switching to fair trade too.

[aerialrose]

@superawesomekirst

Yes, but by when?

[superawesomekirst]

@aerialrose when is Cadbury switching? They are in the process right now. You'll notice that more and more of their chocolate products are now getting the fair trade symbol on their package. Their dairy milk bar is fair trade as well as a few others at this very moment.

[aerialrose]

@LegendaryModsTM

Uh, think again. Mars is switching to fair trade by 2020...that's nowhere near now. They're starting also with a popular brand only sold in Europe. Your Twix is most definitely not Fair Trade.

[Aurinkohirvi]

Unfortunately, also the fair trade chocolate farms use child slaves. Watch the Danish documentary "The Dark Side of Chocolate" by Miki Mistrati and the BBC Panorama documentary "Chocolate - The Bitter Truth". But I guess choosing fair trade is still better than not choosing it.

Spread the word and put pressure on your chocolate manufacturers!

[angloengland]

I and a growing number of people believe in a boycott of all products bearing the 'fairtrade' quango insignia and urge everyone else to do the same. This is NOT fair trade!

[superawesomekirst]

Why don't you think this is fair trade?

[angloengland]

Well, lets take Nestle Kitkat for instance - they will shortly be making this fairtrade - now what happens to the cocoa farmers who presently supply Nestle but arent fortunate enough to be selected for fairtrade certification? And I don't think the typical 10% of the premium people pay for fairtrade chocolate, that actually goes to the fairtrade farmers is worth making a vast many more potentially poorer. Fair trade is very unfair and nothing more than a marketing device.

[01jbaldwin]

this is a well gud vid. it has inspired me to make a change. i am only buying fairtrade stuff now! and i have written letters to all the major super markets in the uk and to cadburys and nestle. i have also written letters to the PM, david cameron, nick clegg, the queen and the duke of edinbourgh

[qwenmb]

i am so using this for my s+e project!

[dizpott]

even after watching something as serious as that you people are bickering over petty trivial matters, what is wrong with you people, get a heart will you !!!!!!

[ivoriancutie]

first of all the slave lik u say do not come from ivory coast.. and our government tries our best to prevent this to happen

[superawesomekirst]

Yes the government is doing its best but it's not enough. The consumer still needs to do their best to insist on fair trade cocoa beans. And no not all the slaves are from the Ivory Caost but a majority are because that is where the cocoa plantations are.

[ivoriancutie]

well i don't know if all of dis really happened because even when i used 2 live in Ivory coast , i lived in the capital so if something lik da did happen i never knew that...

[rsjmanlman]

also, these farms are hidden, because obviously they don't want people to find out...

[rsjmanlman]

you're taking information given, changing it, and then disaprooving itso you're truely not disaprooving anything. However You are prooving that your an idiot.

ps- *reply to "ivoriancutie" not "superawesomekirst"

[superawesomekirst]

ur so rude lol! :P Don't eat smarties!!

[superawesomekirst]

You two are silly lol! This is a serious topic! Ps its spelled JasOn lol! Good try though :)

[691168003]

EAT SMARTIES!!!

jk

[691168003]

oh man its JASEN!!!!

[superawesomekirst]

Its so true thats why everyone needs to do their very best to be buying fair trade items.

[691168003]

WOW... that really spoke to me.

We pay so much for a chocolate bar and they get nothing. It's really sad...

[rsjmanlman]

omg!!!!!!!! it's weston!!!!@!@@!!@!!!!!