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Old Jun 10th, 2007, 04:10 AM
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According to GLOBAL WITNESS: Ivory Coast (Cote d'ivoire)whose COCOA crops $1.4bn revenues, accounted for about 40 per cent of global production, help finance civil war ...

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Old Jun 10th, 2007, 04:27 AM
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from another chocoholic try to buy "fair traded" chocolate.

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Old Jun 10th, 2007, 04:30 AM
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i easily banned all Rhino-horn products...

Diamonds? - never had & never will

but Chocolate???
who should i ban / put pressure on /scorn ?
Leonidas? Godiva? or maybe Lindt? Nestle or Cadbury ? (i let u deal with Hershey's not my cup o' chocolate)
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They use child slave labour as well.
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Not sure where you are located but if you go to your local health food or natural food store they should sell fair trade chocolate, same goes for coffee too. or google fair trade chocolate and you will find a lot of on line retailers. it won't be Hersey's that for sure.
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Hi,

Green and Black's chocolate is fair trade and organic and yummy too! I love their Maya Orange...

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PS Hershey's is not chocolate, but a chocolate-like substance in the opinion of this chocoholic!

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