One of the unique things about Equal Exchange is that the foundation of our work is based on relationships. It’s both how we do our work and why we do our work. The means and the ends, you could say. Relationships with our farmer partners, for sure. But we also carry out our work in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘child slavery’
“… The Not-So-Sweet Truth about…Chocolate Bars.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child slavery, Fair Trade chocolate, Ozark Natural Foods on September 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Profiting from Child Trafficking
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child slavery, child trafficking, Fair Trade chocolate on August 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The following post was written by Dary Goodrich, Chocolate Products Manager For years at Equal Exchange we’ve been trying to call attention to the problem of forced child labor in the chocolate industry (see “Modern Slavery on Cocoa Farms” Equal Exchange 2006 Annual Report, “Reverse Trick-or-Treating” Equal Exchange 2007 Annual Report, “V-Days Dark Side” [...]
On Passover: Considering Child Slavery on Cocoa Farms
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child slavery, cocoa farms, Fair Trade chocolate on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following article, by Rodney North, Public Relations Manager and Susan Sklar, Interfaith Program Manager, first appeared on April 2nd on the Jew and the Carrot blog. On Passover every Jew is obligated to imagine that he or she had once been a slave in the land of Egypt. We try to envision the [...]
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