The production of our favourite treats can be a nightmare for workers.
With plummeting crop prices, many farmers are subject to poverty and forced labour in an attempt to increase their crop yield. Some media reports have claimed that in the worst cases children as young as six are being forced to work 80-100 hours a week, enduring beatings and malnutrition on top of back-breaking work.
You can make a difference
There is an alternative. Fairtrade is an accord to pay farmers a fair price for their crops in agreed humane and sustainable conditions. The Fairtrade movement empowers farmers, giving them back their autonomy and independence as producers.
In order to have stores stock ethical chocolate, including Fairtrade chocolate, they need to know there’s a demand for it.
Tell your local department store and supermarkets that you’d buy ethical chocolate if they stocked it.
- Tell your supermarkets that you’d love to see them using Fairtrade cocoa in their own home brands.
Dowwnload our Chocolate Retailer coupons. Hand one to your local retailer and tell them why you are doing it.
Email or telephone these stores today:
Coles Email Coles Telephone Coles’ customer service line: 1800 061 562
IGA Supermarkets Email IGA Myer Telephone Myer’s customer service line: 1800 811 611
Safeway/Woolworths Email Safeways/Woolworths Target Telephone Target’s customer service line: 1800 814 788
Aldi Telephone your local Aldi store.
Locate your nearest Aldi store.