• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Not my chocolate. I will never eat chocolate again barring a major, major industry overhaul after seeing John Oliver’s segment on it.

    And if you want to keep eating chocolate and stay in the dark about why you really shouldn’t, never watch it.

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      23 days ago

      There do seem to be a few ethical sources for it; I know Tony’s says they “try, but can’t guarantee” it comes from ethical sources, but there are some single origin chocolate makers out there, although they’re more expensive.

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        23 days ago

        That’s an issue John Oliver brought up. Even the ones that try to source it ethically can’t guarantee it and I just don’t want to risk being complicit in that.

        Sure, we all take advantage of people in other ways all the time, but this seems like an easy thing for me to stop doing and try to make the world just a tiny bit better… or at least feel a tiny bit better about my part in it.

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          23 days ago

          Yeah, I totally agree with that. The single origin makers can guarantee that it’s collected ethically though since they get their cocoa from one source, which is something I didn’t see in the John Oliver segment and had also sworn it off. I haven’t looked into it much past the one farm I went to in Hawaii that I’ve been happy to buy from recently, but I do think there are others that can guarantee it.

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      23 days ago

      I feel the same way about cocaine. There have been reports of murder in the cocaine trade.