Chocolate: the bitter truth
Fair-trade
•The international
certification body fairtrade labelling
organisation international
(ICBFLOI) first started the
fair-trade logo
•The group was set up in
Netherlands in the 1980s
•Set up to make people in
the developing countries
get paid better and have a
better living
The fair-trade mark is a registered certification
label for products sourced from producers in
developing countries
Fair-trade
/standards
•Ensure a minimum price for the
producer
•Provide an extra investment for
development
•Offer money to the producers to
invest
•Also to encourage partnership
•Ensure conditions are socially and
economically fair
1. Green and Blacks-Maya gold
2. Divine chocolate-nearly all of
their range of chocolates
3. Oxfam –chocolate mints
4. Thorntons-easter eggs and
organic fair-trade range
5. Asda-fair-trade
6. Cadbury-fair-trade milk
chocolate
7. Starbucks-dark chocolate and
milk chocolate range
Bad chocolates
1. Mars bar
2. galaxy
Kit Kat is also a bad
Company which uses
child labour to get their
coco beans but now they
have been persuaded by
the
fair-trade society to
make their Kit Kat four
finger bar with fair trade
chocolate
• There are loads of different
countries that use child
labour.
•A lot of the children are
trafficked.
•There are a lot of children
trafficked to do child labour.
•Cote d’ivoire in the west of
Africa has a lot of coco
farms.
•A lot of the chocolate comes
from the Ivory coast.
•The children work in
dangerous and hazardous
conditions.
Are you eating child slavery?
•The children climb up the
coco bean trees.
•The children use tools to
slice up the coco bean tree.
•Then they take them back to
the owner of the farm.
•Then the buyers come.
• Big ships come to pick up
the coco beans.
• The coco beans then get
produced.
What's in it for them?
What can you do to help?
1. Go to your
local shop or
your
supermarket!
2. Buy more
3. Tell your
friends
4. Tell the
companies