Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’

Make Sweets Fair Trade

Make Sweets Fair Trade

Shopping for Valentine’s Day sweets? Here’s the dirty little secret behind mass-produced candy: As many as 200,000 children work the cocoa fields of Africa’s Ivory Coast, many against their will. On the sugar side, massive amounts of herbicides and pesticides are routinely sprayed on sugar cane crops, which are burned after harvest, leading to ground, […]