I like how they tried to incorporate the quotation marks as some sort of quirky font by adding it above chocolate as well, yet it is still obvious.
They just work for free because of the “implications”
Would you let me take everything you have right there for free and sell it? Like…water?
…even if a make an unholy shitton of plastic that will contribute massive to the goal of killing everyone?
John Oliver covered this on Last Week Tonight. tl;dw Cocoa is almost exclusively grown in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, two West African countries. Most of these farms are family run and there are millions of them. All the Cocoa they produce is purchased by a few companies who dictate price. Because they buy at such a low price, the only way these farms make money is if they force children in their families to work the farm for no compensation. Ie. Child slavery.
The worst part is that the organizations that audit the farms in an effort to reduce slavery fail spectacularly. The Farms receive notice of the audit and what they hope not to find in advance, and then the audits only occur at most every 6 months but more likely every few years. A documentary team of students took a trip out to a few farms that receive these audits and found Child Slavery immediately.
And Nestle is not even close to the worst chocolate maker: https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2023/at-chocolate-time-weve-discovered-what-the-brands-that-score-best-on-child-labour-and-the-environment-have-incommon.php
In the really shitty end of things are Mondelez and Unilever.
when Tony’s Chocolonely started up based on slave free, the financial journals were doing headlines like “will they be able to survive this bold new direction?”
They eventually found the cocoa market to be almost impossible to separate from slavery. They still do their best, which is a lot more than most, but they don’t make any guarantees
They have some argument for doing business with one of the largest processors who’s not the worst but not provably ethical. Discouraging.
At Tony’s, we exist so make all chocolate 100% slave-free, not just our own. That means climbing into the lion’s den and tackling change from within. It means getting to the root of the problem and paving the way for others by proving the scalability of our solutions.
Surprised that the processor, Barry Callebaut, is down for Tony to publish such blunt criticism of them. It’s like “don’t worry, Barry’s made a totally separate production line for us - only the Barry’s non-Tony production line contains the slave blood!”
Man, capitalism is just fucking wild, isn’t it?
like Nestlé getting out of a child slavery lawsuit because none of the slavery happened in the US?
Fuck it, from where I come from: people in agriculture get smacked just by existing or trying to build common cause with “let’s end hunger in the world”. I’m with you, salutations from America Latina ! And let’s make those fuckers get what they deserve.
Quando dou comida aos pobres, chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres, chamam-me de comunista. (When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.)
—Dom Hélder Câmara, cited in Zildo Rocha, Helder, O Dom: uma vida que marcou os rumos da Igreja no Brasil (2000)
I’m parsing this, but here is their explanation:
https://tonyschocolonely.com/uk/en/why-we-still-wont-say-were-100-slave-free
The biggest problem with claiming to be slave free is that you need to own the farms to make sure, which means the locals don’t get those profits either.
Whittaker’s is slave free but they can’t advertise it because they support the local economies … which means they can’t be reasonably sure slaves aren’t used when they’re not looking.
I have yet to see proof that Tony’s is actually slavery free. And if it isn’t (as in “we are doing oUr BeSt”) then why the hell would I buy from them instead of… not buying chooclate?
Because they pay a lot more to the producers.
why is it in quotes
Because slavery is so prevalent in cocoa farms that it’s impossible to guarantee that no slave labor was used. Even if they make an effort use ethical sources they still can’t make that guarantee.
We are (big air quotes) “slave free”.
Slavery predates capitalism by about as long as tribes predate capitalism.
You say that with some kind of implication of acceptism…
I say that because slavery has nothing to do with capitalism and never has.
You’re delusional.
Truly enlightening
Must be nice not to be diabetic.
It is, objectively, but also what??
Exploitation is Slavery. If you don’t a job for some rich asshole, you’re dead. Do you just not educate yourself beyond your own comfort? Do you just think than any comfort you chew like tobacco is anything but delusion?
That’s nightshade. Come back to reality and spit that the fuck out, now.
Oh the printers always screw that up.
“We’re Slavers. Free Chocolate!”
There, fixed.
Lionel Hutz
No it’s “slave free tm.” Wich is just a trademark not a declaration.
So other political and economic systems do not have a history of slaves too? Whenever I see things blaming capitalism for our issues I worry as it means we are no laser focused on the root cause of these sorts of issues…centralized powers getting too big and unchecked no matter their political flavour.
Most have a history, yes.
But the slavery with nestle is still going on.