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The topic of slave chocolate would not, probably, be my first choice of campaign issues.  With Easter just a few days away,  I feel fairly evil for even having brought it up!  A friend’s daughter read my last post and now won’t let her mother buy a regular chocolate Easter bunny for another friend.  And I’ve been wondering, myself, too, how I’m going to handle this at MY house next Sunday.

Well, the most obvious solution seems to be: put on my Birkenstocks and head for the health food store – darn, and I just shaved my legs this morning, too.    Our local gourmet food and high-end grocery stores have fair trade chocolate, as well.  At Kroger yesterday, we found a single fair-trade chocolate item, in the Natural Foods section:  some kind of sports bar, and it was pretty horrid.   Oh, for a Trader Joe’s! (not in our part of the country, I’m afraid.)  Too late for mail-order, but by the NEXT holiday, I’ll have had a little more lead time.  What is that… Hallowe’en?  Or are have they started in on Labor Day, now (tiny little chocolate Jerry Lewises?)

Another loved-one wrote yesterday about a new candy factory she’d just toured in Seattle, Theo Chocolates, which claims to be the only factory in the U.S. which produces chocolate that is both organic AND fair trade. 

And how about this?  Here’s an entire BLOG dedicated to reviewing candy: this link takes you to their thread of Fair Trade candy reviews! 

And here’s a list of suppliers of both Fair Trade and organic chocolate…  the latter generally being considered as also being slave-free, as it’s grown on special plantations.  Be sure to scroll down to find even more information in the comments at the bottom of the site.