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How to choose ethical chocolate Easter eggs
Despite the fun packaging and shiny foil wrappers, chocolate is no longer a carefree indulgence. Here s how to make a conscious choice
2 April 2021 • 11:30am
A cocoa farmer in Ghana with Tony’s chocolate, which flies the ethics banner
Credit: Tony s Chocolonely
What do you want most from your Easter eggs? A quick hit of sugar and fat to get you through until lunchtime, maybe. A taste of your childhood, transporting you with a single mouthful back to happier, more innocent times. Lord knows, right now we all deserve these little pleasures.
Perhaps a chunk of that delicious, creamy, silky Galaxy egg. Wait! Did you know that Ethical Consumer, which has been rating foods for 30 years, gives Galaxy just 1.5 out of 20 when considering its impact on the environment, people and animals? Awful, isn’t it? Reach instead for another egg.
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ICYMI: Here’s our top 10 most popular confectionery stories of 2020 By Anthony Myers From the WCF and Tony’s Chocolonely hosting fantastic events online, Barry Callebaut launching ground-breaking 3D-printing and the NCA’s John Downs steadying the ship in Florida as the coronavirus begins to swirl around the confectionery industry, we look at some of the stories that shaped this most momentous of years, as we prepare to start afresh in 2021.
2020 started in fantastic style with ISM/ProSweets in Cologne and the always-interesting Chocoa Conference in Amsterdam.
Then came the coronavirus, just as the NCA was winding up its ‘State of the Industry’ gathering in Florida in March, wiping out the rest of the events and conferences planned for the rest of the year.
West African cocoa farmers relationship with Hershey Co. takes bitter turn Christian Peña © Provided by NBC News
It has been a bitter holiday season for the maker of foil-wrapped Hershey s Kisses. For nearly a month, a battle has been raging between the Hershey chocolate company and the West African farmers who harvest many of its cocoa beans. And it appears that the long-disenfranchised farmers may have scored a rare win.
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The dispute began in November, when cocoa industry traders noticed that an unnamed source had purchased so many cocoa beans in the futures market that prices rose by more than 30 percent.
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