Fair Trade Chocolate

Sales Of Fair Trade Products Explode

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 03.14.2012

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These days, companies that sell fair trade-certified food might be doing much better than "fair." Sales of products with Fair Trade USA's seal of app...

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Sinfully Good and Cruelty-Free: Vegan Recipes for Valentine's Day (PHOTOS)

Nil Zacharias | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Recipes, Slavery, Vegan Recipes, Vegan, Environment, Flowers, Slidepollajax, Valentine's Day, Vegan Chocolate, Fair Trade Chocolate, Vegan Food, Valentine's Day Food, Valentine's Day Ideas, Valentine's Day Recipes, KitchenDaily News

Have your (Valentine's Day) cake and eat it too, while minimizing your negative impact on people, animals and the planet!

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WATCH: Why You Should Buy Fair Trade Chocolate

Posted 01.27.2012

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Ah chocolate. One of life's glorious pleasures. But did you know the chocolate bar you’re eating may have been produced with child slave labor? Yes,...

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Candy Politics: The Dark Side Of Chocolate

Menuism | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Chocolate Policies, Chocolate Practices, Fairtrade Chocolate, Organic Chocolate, Chocolate, Slidepollajax, Politics of Chocolate, Fair Trade Chocolate, Fair Trade, Policies of Chocolate, Food News

Many chocolate lovers consume and enjoy chocolate without ever thinking about where it comes from or how it was produced. However, there are many issues surrounding the production of chocolate that are important for consumers to be aware of.

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Equal Exchange: Worker-Owned Fair Trade Food Company

Joan Brunwasser | Posted 09.15.2011

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My guest today is Daniel Steinberg, Community Brand Builder at Equal Exchange. Welcome to OpEdNews, Daniel. Can you tell our readers a bit about Equa...

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Why "Fair" Trade Is Not The (Whole) Answer

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Currency Manipulation, Free Trade, Fair Trade Chocolate, Fair Trade Coffee, Business News

The idea of "fair" trade is very appealing, whether confronting the plight of autoworkers in Michigan or farmers in the Third World. Unfortunately, it will be only a small part of any trade solution for the U.S. and the world as a whole.

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Valentine's Chocolate Please, Hold the Child Labor

Regina Varolli | Posted 05.25.2011

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The worst forms of child labor, even children that have been trafficked into slavery, are prevalent in the growing and harvesting of cacao in West Africa.

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Eco Etiquette: 10 Wow-'Em Green Gifts Under $25 (PHOTOS)

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every purchase comes with its price for the planet, whether it's the natural resources used to create it, the energy expended to manufacture it, the fuel used to ship it, or the waste created when disposing of it (not everything can be recycled forever).

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Making All Harry Potter Chocolate Fair Trade

Andrew Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, Hpa, Harry Potter Alliance, Fair Trade Chocolate, Fair Trade, Chocolate, Deathly Hallows, Impact News

Chocolate being sold in Harry's name is not fair trade. The fair trade label is the most realistic way that we can know that the cocoa farmers were treated fairly, transparently, and with the chance of upward mobility.

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Eco Etiquette: 10 Tips For A Green Halloween

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Halloween Candy, Green Halloween, Green Advice, Pvc, Composting, Genetically Modified Food, Food Waste, Green Living, Hershey's, Fair Trade Chocolate, Indoor Air Pollution, Carbon Footprint, Green News

With a few simple swaps you can guard the health of the planet and your little ones (and your own, if you're still a kid at heart) without sacrificing a ghoulish good time. Here are my top 10 tips for a green Halloween.

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The Case for Informed Citizenship

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, The Environmentalist, Environment, Naomi Klein, Climate Change, Media, BP Oil Spill, Philip Morris, Gulf Oil Spill, Climategate, Fair Trade Chocolate, Consumer Spending, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Shock Doctrine, Politics News

Are we, by our own obtuseness, responsible for those who toil in unsafe conditions, who find themselves looking out at a destroyed Gulf of Mexico, who mourn for loved ones buried in an unsafe mine?

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To Start an Artisan Food Company, You Don't Always Need a Business Plan (VIDEO)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

This little food story is for all of you home cooks out there who have always wanted to sell that one thing that your friends and family keep asking y...

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Buying Chocolate for Valentine's Day? Think Twice!!

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Valentine's Day Gifts, Slave Labor, Valentine's Day, Child-Labor, Child Laborer, Fair Trade Chocolate, Chocolate, Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Impact News

More than half the world's chocolate comes from child laborers in the Ivory Coast and Ghana.

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What Does Kraft's Takeover Of Cadbury Mean For Fairtrade Cocoa?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Just last month, Cadbury's CEO urged shareholders to hold tight and go for sustainability because he believed that the company's strong ethical code w...

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Chocolate: Truly The Food Of The Gods

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cacao, Dark Chocolate, Organic Chocolate, Chocolate for Health, Fair Trade Chocolate, Chocolate, Food, Healthy Living News

Originally consumed as a hot liquid, either thick or thin, laced through with hot spice and cinnamon, chocolate tasted nothing like the cloyingly sweet candy we call chocolate today.

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Be Mine and Be Fair this Valentine's Day

Elizabeth Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost 40 percent of Valentine's Day gifts involve some sort of candy or chocolate. Yet these gifts, which are meant to convey love and friendship, have this horrifically unlovely and unfriendly story.

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Sustainable Valentine's Day

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whatever your take is on February 14th, it's an opportunity to actually not spend much money (and who has any left to spend in this economy?) and make it a sustainable day.

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Ethical Chocolate Worth Craving

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 05.25.2011

But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.

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How To Green Your Easter

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Green Your Easter, Easter Commercialization, Natural Dyes, Organic Chocolate, Olivia Zaleski, Fair-Trade Chocolate, Eco-Easter, Green Living, How to Green Your Easter, The Giving Life, Green Tips, Easter, Healthy Living News

It's Easter time and in case you haven't noticed, the retail world has gone full force "Easter-Spectacular." With Christmas over, it's "out with the m...

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A Greener, Sweeter Valentine's Day

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Valentine's Day Waste, Green Valentine's Day, Green Chocolate Valentine's, Green Living, Fair Trade Chocolate, The Giving Life, Going Green, Healthy Living News

Is Valentine's Day a beautiful celebration of love, commitment and denial? Dating back hundreds of years, the origins of Valentine's Day--and its ...

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