FAIR TRADE

Chocolate

Do you like Chocolate? Do you know what chocolate is made from?

Milk, cocoa/cocoa butter, sugar, and vegetable oil

Cocoa and Cocoa butter come from cocoa beans

Cocoa

Cacao Beans grow in cocoa pods that grow on trees

Cocoa trees are grown in tropical regions by the equator.

Most cocoa is grown in Africa

The Chocolate Process

Cocoa farmers harvest the cocoa pods by hand

They crack open the pods to take out the cocoa beans

Farmers sell these beans to traders Then the beans are shipped to factories The companies roast the

beans to make chocolate Consumers like you buy them at

the supermarket

Effects of Cocoa

Farmers only gets pennies for each chocolate bar you buy

Many cocoa famers and their families are very poor

Children have to work on the farm, they don’t go to school

Farmers can’t afford to feed their children or take them to a doctor when they get sick

Effects of Cocoa

Some children work as slaves – taken away from their homes and families

Many of the children that work on these farms have never even tasted chocolate

Effects of Cocoa

Forests are destroyed to create plantations

Farmers use pesticides and chemicals on these plantations to keep bugs and diseases away and to make the plants grow faster

Fair Trade

Many people think farmers should get paid more for their cocoa and be able to protect the environment.

They have set up a fair trade system Farmers get more money so they can

buy food and clothes, go to the doctor, send their children to school

And slavery is outlawed

What does Fair Trade mean?

Fair price – Farmers, distributors, and consumers

Safe working conditions - NO child labor

Empowerment of woman and children

Environmental sustainability –take care of the land (environment)

Assess to education Assess to health care

Fair Trade Chocolate

Chocolate Video

Fair Trade Chocolate

How do you know if the chocolate you buy is fair trade? You will see these labels on the wrapper or

container

Only a few companies participate in Fair Trade – most big companies, like Hershey, don’t.

Other Fair Trade Products

Chocolate Coffee Tea Bananas Sugar Rice Vanilla Sports balls

Fair Trade Chocolate

Have you ever tasted or seen fair trade chocolate?

Fair trade chocolate actually tastes better: No pesticides No chemicals No preservatives

Raise the Bar, Hershey!

Hershey is America’s favorite chocolate brand

Yet, inside almost every Hershey chocolate product is the bitter truth that the cocoa used to produce the chocolate may have been produced under harmful conditions, including forced labor, human trafficking, and abusive child labor.

In addition, Hersey chocolate is over processed - laden with chemicals and pesticides

What can YOU do

Choose Fair Trade products You will change the lives of millions of

farmers, workers and their communities Educate others

Many people are unaware they are promoting child and slave labor when they purchase products that are not fairly traded

This Halloween

No Hershey HalloweenReverse Trick-or-Treating:

This Halloween you can help end the exploitation of adults and children working tin the cocoas industry and raise awareness of Fair Trade

Trick-or-treaters will be handing Fair Trade chocolate back to adults, with informational cards attached, to explain the problems of the cocoa industry and how Fair Trade presents a solution.

Hundreds of thousands of households in the US are getting the message that child labor and forced labor will not be tolerated.