fair trade chocolate

• Kids Carry Conscience in a Bag of Goodies ; Trick-or-Treaters Sharing Fair-Trade Chocolate

Dressed in her vampire costume, 9-year-old Danielle Vitulli plans to have the usual fun when she goes tricko r - t r e a t i n g this year. But a dash of seriousness will be sprinkled into her Halloween celebration. The Chipeta Elementary School fourth-grader is one of thousands of American children taking part in a "Reverse Trick-or-Treating" campaign, which was launched by human rights advocacy groups last year to raise awareness of child labor problems in cocoa fields.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• November 17, 2008

• Lutheran World Relief Announces Investment in Fair Trade Chocolate Company

To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: Emily Sollie of Lutheran World Relief, +1-410-230-2802, esollie@lwr.org

• U.S. Newswire
• February 14, 2007

• Coming to Terms

Label without a cause? Not in today's food stores, where many of the product stickers are more a statement of political beliefs than nutrition or taste. You'll find "free-range" or "all-natural" chicken; "fair-trade" chocolate; "artisan" cheese; or "organic" breakfast cereal.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 29, 2007

• Blessed Are the Peacemakers ; Nobel Laureate Jody Williams Visits Mid-Missouri to 'Peacejam' with Young People. From Her Vermont Home, Williams Coordinated an International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

It's a long way from the cocoa fields of West Africa to Mid- Missouri, but Fulton High School sophomore McKenzie Jones has made a connection. Jones is interested in "fair trade" chocolate, and if you spend a few minutes with her, you could learn that those chocolate Easter bunnies you bought for today might have been made with the help of child slave labor.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• April 08, 2007

• Sweet dreams: Seattle's Theo is a fair trade version of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

"Sweet dreams are made of this ..." It was pure coincidence that the 1983 Eurythmics hit was playing on the radio as the staff of Theo Chocolate readi...

• Our Planet
• Nbr. 2007, October 2007

• Media Advisory: Divine Chocolate Launches in the U.S. With Two D.C. Events -- Celebrating the World's First Farmer-Owned Fair Trade Chocolate Company

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Melissa Salmanowitz of M&R Strategic Services, +1-202- 478-6138 or msalmanowitz@mrss.com

• U.S. Newswire
• February 06, 2007

• Fair Trade Chocolates Will Have Emissary On Halloween Night

As her boys stroll door to door hollering "trick or treat" this Halloween , Katherine Johnke will be right behind them with another message: "Fair trade chocolate! Johnke, 38, of Chesapeake, will give homeowners chocolates guaranteed not to be produced with child labor or unfair pricing for farmers.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• October 31, 2008

• Grow Them Green

Marin is a national leader in the green schools movement. Here's a snapshot of what five schools are doing to take care of our planet and develop responsible Earth citizens who'll do so for a lifetime. You don't have to be a teenager to help the planet. Under the leadership of Principal Jeanne Casella, kids as young as 6 years old at this Terra Linda school "apply" for one of 20 jobs that help run the school and make it greener, such as promoting recycling on campus, shutting off the lights and even feeding the chickens. Yes, they have free-range chickens, as well as a pond and organic garden. Fourth-grade teacher Laura Honda has made a name for herself as an innovative and effective environmental educator. When I went into her Fairfax classroom last year, not only did her kids know abo...

..., organic food, increased recycling and fair trade, plus organic clothing for sports teams and gym cl... energy and even make fair-trade organic chocolate treats shaped like fish that they sell every year ...

• Pacific Sun
• August 18, 2009

• 'Bitter' Chocolate: New Report On Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana Offers Further Evidence That Hershey, Cocoa Industry, Are Failing to Address Abusive Child Labor and Human Trafficking

New Tulane University Report Indicates That Egregious Labor Rights Violations Persist In the Cocoa Sector; In Response, Groups Call On Hershey To Adopt Fair Trade Certification for Its Chocolate. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University released its fourth annual report on Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. The report underscores the lack of progress that is being made by voluntary programs adopted by the cocoa industry to address the problems of child and forced labor in West Africa. In response, national nonprofits Global Exchange, Green America, International Labor Rights Forum, and Oasis USA called on Hershey...

• U.S. Newswire
• September 30, 2010

• Chocolate? Hotels? Think Green!

This Valentine's Day, you can stuff your sweetie with chocolate and still feel good in the process. Thanks to a growing number of producers of organic and Fair Trade chocolate, there are plenty of delicious alternatives in the marketplace. Read about some of the new candy makers, as well as some local favorites, in this Sunday's edition of Going Green, the Web-only environmental magazine of The Commercial Appeal.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• February 04, 2010