If you’d follow my tastes in Tomato Magazine you’d have discovered my views on chocolate.
Incidentally, Fair Trade chocolate company Green & Black’s has been bought by Cadbury, which some people say compromises it on the ethical stakes.
The surprise is how little Fairtrade cash gets to the growers according to The Observer in the UK:
“Ninety-eight per cent of Fairtrade chocolate is manufactured and packaged in Europe…Of the revenue generated by a £1.70 bar of Fairtrade chocolate, for instance, only five per cent (8.5p) remains in the country of origin while the rest is dispersed in wealthy northern nations. With Equitrade, the proportion of revenue remaining in Madagascar would be 51 per cent (87p per bar)”
Equitrade sounds a much better idea. And what worries me is how little cash from the big manufacturers such as Cadbury goes to the growers.
This is something I knocked together for Beomag on my favourite topic and brand, Kennedy & Wilson. I can’t promise it’s fair trade or anything else like that but its tastes fantastic and is Australian made in Gruyere in the Yarra Valley Download Extremechoc.pdf (350.0K)