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Chocolate: the bitter truth

Chocolate: the bitter truth. Chocolate:The bitter truth. F a i r - t r a d e. The international certification body fair-trade labelling organisation international (ICBFLOI) first started the fair-trade logo The group was set up in Netherlands in the 1980s

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Chocolate: the bitter truth

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  1. Chocolate: the bitter truth Chocolate:The bitter truth

  2. Fair-trade • The international certification body fair-trade labelling organisation international (ICBFLOI) first started the fair-trade logo • The group was set up in Netherlands in the 1980s • Set up to make people in the developing countries get paid better and have a better living The fair-trade mark is a registered certification label for products sourced from producers in developing countries

  3. Fair-trade /standards Rules • Ensure a minimum price for the producer • Provide an extra investment for development • Offer money to the producers to invest • Also to encourage partnership • Ensure conditions are socially and economically fair

  4. good chocolates • Green and Blacks-Maya gold • Divine chocolate-nearly all of their range of chocolates • Oxfam –chocolate mints • Thorntons-easter eggs and organic fair-trade range • Asda-fair-trade • Cadbury-fair-trade milk chocolate • Starbucks-dark chocolate and milk chocolate range

  5. Bad chocolates • Mars bar • galaxy Kit Kat is also a bad Company which uses child labour to get their coco beans but now they have been persuaded by the fair-trade society to make their Kit Kat four finger bar with fair trade chocolate

  6. child labour • There are loads of different countries that use child labour. • A lot of the children are trafficked. • There are a lot of children trafficked to do child labour. • Cote d’ivoire in the west of Africa has a lot of coco farms. • A lot of the chocolate comes from the Ivory coast. • The children work in dangerous and hazardous conditions.

  7. Are you eating child slavery? • The children climb up the coco bean trees. • The children use tools to slice up the coco bean tree. • Then they take them back to the owner of the farm. • Then the buyers come. • Big ships come to pick up the coco beans. • The coco beans then get produced.

  8. What's in it for them?What can you do to help? • Go to your local shop or your supermarket! • Buy more • Tell your friends • Tell the companies

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