NOOOO NOOOOOOT CHOCOLATE!!!!

Growing up, I was told in order to gain the world you must lose it. I thought I could do that with anything. But chocolate.

Last week I had the chance to go to Not for Sale's Global Forum on Human Trafficking. They've launched a campaign to put pressure on chocolate companies violating human rights. I had no idea the reality of slave-like conditions farmers in Africa and other coacoa-harvesting nations suffer. If chocolate is so sweet because it manufactered in sour ways, I don't want to be a part of it. You are what you eat treat. This realization has been a huge point of contention in my life know--everytime I reach for the chocolate I think of sweaty children reaching tall limbs of coacoa trees with their boss yelling to work faster when they should be in school, or playing marbles.

GOOD NEWS! There is fair trade chocolate--in many places, even the natural food section at Cub Foods. And if you buy fair trade, you probably won't buy as much chocolate, Jenny, and therefore your diet will be healthier. Good plan. Even better, obstain from purchasing Hershey's, and tell them why you're doing so by signing the petition to Hershey advocating fair treatment of every laborer, regardless of the nation they live in.

And more GOOD NEWS! Nestle is making an effort to make socially responsible chocolate. Now that's sweet.