Chocolate: the bitter truth

Fair-trade

The fair-trade mark is a registered certification label for products sourced from producers in developing countries

•The international certification body fair-trade 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

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

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 tomake their Kit Kat four finger bar with fair tradechocolate

1. Mars bar2. galaxy

• 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