Happy Halloween: Beware These 10 Popular Chocolate Brands that Exploit Child Slaves

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13. Not to mention, it is highly likely that Zachary's starts with chocolate pellets

produced by someone. I looked at their web site and they simply spoke of using "real chocolate" -- as a comparison, here is what Lake Champlain chocolates out of Burlington says about their FAIR TRADE chocolates -- and it seems that it was not easy for them to do this.
http://www.lakechamplainchocolates.com/about-us/fair-trade-chocolate/ I would bet that Zachary's is buying its chocolate from some producer -- and given that they ARE NOT making the point that they sought out fair trade chocolate - they likely didn't.

Obviously the down side is they cost a lot more ... but that is the consequence of not buying chocolate grown or harvested with slave labor and buying other high quality ingredients. In some ways, this shows the dilemma that many face - not juts on chocolate that is not really a necessity - though it seems to be! Very affordable food and clothes are often at the expense of good jobs for the producers. Yet, for many, it is what they can afford --- as they too were impacted by the downward spiral of incomes. This is why I almost hesitated to post the Lake Champlain chocolates info -- they are a luxury product.