cocoa from West Africa and has direct control over its supply chain...”
Here are a few of the big companies that are known to use slaveproduced cocoa:
• Mars( also owns Galaxy)
• Hershey’ s
• Kraft Foods( also owns Cadbury, Nabisco, Toblerone)
• Nestlé( A list of brands and products owned by Nestlé is at the back of this booklet)
• General Mills( also owns Häagen Dazs)
• Lindt and Sprungli( also owns Ghirardelli)
• Unilever( also owns Algida)
• Godiva
• Archer Daniels Midland( ADM), Cargill, and Barry Callebaut do not run plantations; they buy the cocoa beans from Ivorian traders and then sell it to chocolate companies.
You can search on the internet if you want more complete information concerning which brands are owned by these listed companies.
For information on which chocolate to buy and where to buy it, flip to the guide to buying and boycotting on page 24.
2.4 Where to buy slave-free chocolate Organic Stores Most organic stores sell slave-free chocolate. Global Exchange The leading online supplier of Fairtrade products. Go to www. globalexchangestore. org Amazon. com Sells organic and Fairtrade chocolate; search by product or brand. Go to www. amazon. com Supermarkets Many supermarkets worldwide have Fairtrade products. Talk to store owners and employees and tell them about the problem of child slavery on cocoa farms. Be sure to recommend Fairtrade. If you like, you can recommend this book( it’ s website is www. ChocolateSlavery. tk).
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