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[PeteJB]

So, how does one go about getting some Cadbury chocolate in Korea? I've heard they have branches in Singapore, Japan and a Asia Pacific expansion campaign but have yet to see a peep of them here. The UK homepage doesn't deliver to Korea, so what to do!!

[Lekker]

Put up an ad asking anyone who is going back to the UK to bring you back some upon their return?

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

Totally Slave-Free

The following chocolate brands are fairtrade certified.

* Scarborough Fair
* Kaoka
* Cocolo
* Rupunzel
* Tava
* Maya Gold (from Green and Blacks)
* Just Organic
* Cocoa Farm - not fairtrade certified BUT they source their cocoa and cocoa products ONLY from Australia. As a result, they are slave-free (and also has a smaller carbon footprint).. ETA ( 5/7/08 ) it seems its unclear whether their crops are mature enough now to use in their chocolate or whether this is a future plan of theirs. I am emailing them now to see what is happening.


Totally Slave-Free, but....

The following brands are slave-free. However, ethically-sourced cocoa is not a core value in their business. Rather, it is more a by-product of either gaining more profits (by appealing to ethical consumers); or because it is a condition of them gaining organic accreditation. As a result, I believe these chocolate brands should be kept on a "watching brief" as I believe that if accreditation standards change or if ethical consumption proves to be unprofitable, then these chocolates *may* end up buying cocoa harvested by child slaves.

* Green and Blacks - organic chocolate that is also slave free. Having said that, this brand is owned by Cadbury's who are NOT slave-free.
* Abundant Earth
* Endangered Species (also carries a strong environmental message and 10% of profits go to save endangered animal species)- I've put Endangered Species here because they are saying they are carrying out audits on their suppliers BUT those audits are no longer independent. Still they are listing their suppliers, so to my knowledge they are slave-free.
* Any other chocolate that has Australian Certified Organic accreditation. (There are heaps of accreditation systems but ACO requires that all ingredients in the product are produced in accordance with Internation Labour Laws (this includes no slavery in the production process).


*Not* Slave-Free but...

These brands are not slave-free, however they have policies or programmes in place that try to minimise the more negative practices of slavery (ie beatings, torture etc) in their chocolate. They have education programmes for their producers in a (small) effort to change the more abusive nature of slavery.

* Cadbury Range - including Picnic, and Fry's Turkish (owned by Cadbury Schweppes)
* Streets (owned by Unilever)
* Arnotts - now apparently have ONE supplier who belong to the Cocoa Initiative. Not a great step but at least its a step.


Definitely Use Slaves and They Don't Care
The following companies absolutely disgust me with their absolute commitment to profit at the cost of abuse and deaths of children.

* Entire Nestle Range
* Hershey (actually has a policy to *not* reveal its cocoa sources, despite a Supreme Court action to do so.... legal case still going...)
* Mars Company (includes M&Ms)
* Lindt

Found online here

[Lekker]

Hershey's chocolate is not made by slaves, maybe the cocoa beans are harvested by slaves, but Hershey's chocolate, made in Hershey, Pennsylvania, is not made by slaves.

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

This online company provides a good variety of quickly delivered chocolate which is yummy, organic AND fair trade, so you can be sure that the workers were actually earning a fair wage, and not just not children working under slave conditions.

www.fairtradekorea.com

In the supermarkets these days, I have found some organic chocolate from Belgium - can't remember the name of the brand - it has a green label.

Organic chocolate has to meet critiria also including labor standards, and so you can be sure internationally certified organic chocolate is not made with child slave labor.

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

[drunkenfud]

I've seen Cadburys chocolate in Seoul a few times. Off the top of my head, in Shinsigae deprtment store (hoehyon station) and Hannam Market (Hangang Jin station).

[Beeyee]

[Lekker]

[Draz]

[bassexpander]

the Foreign Market store in Itaewon sells it. It's just down the street from WhatTheBook.

[TeeBee]

I saw a selection of Cadbury's chocolate slabs at the "Fancy Store" in Coex Mall on Friday.

[PeteJB]

Anything along the lines of boxes, such as Roses?

[TeeBee]

Didn't take a very good look. They might have other things, but I just saw the slabs there. Sorry!

[Real Reality]

International Cocoa Initiative
http://www.cocoainitiative.org/a.html