Tony’s Chocolonely ‘look-alike’ bars leave bitter taste with big chocolate firms By Anthony Myers Tony’s Chocolonely has alleged that some of the industry’s big chocolate makers have put pressure on UK supermarkets to remove the Dutch company’s ‘Sweet Solution’ bars because “they didn’t want to be associated with the claims of illegal labour in the chocolate industry”.
The four limited edition ‘look-alike’ chocolate bars are designed to raise awareness that 20 years after the chocolate industry promised to eradicate illegal child labour, it is still widely prevalent.
It also follows the release of the US Government sponsored NORC Report from 2020 that called out the cocoa industry’s failure to address numerous human rights violations in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.
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