There’s a lot of buzz about fair trade chocolate. Here’s information about exactly what slavery is like in the chocolate industry. These are some of the least appetizing few sentences I can ever remember reading:

Children enslaved and abused in the cocoa industry are made to work excruciatingly long days, and are often beaten if they try and leave or refuse to work.  Many have been forced to pick cocoa with open wounds, or covered in their own excrement.

But there’s something you can do! The article give links to call Hershey’s or email some of their VPs. It’s an easy way to speak out. And you can buy fair trade chocolate. I bought a delicious fair trade dark chocolate bar at Trader Joe’s last week. It tasted so much better knowing that no kids were brutalized just so I could get my chocolate fix.