Make This Year a Fair Trade Easter
With fair trade easter chocolate, your Easter can be happy and fun for everyone -- even people you've never met
As you begin to consider the loads of candy and gifts you need to buy your kids this Easter, why not stop and think about making this year a fair trade Easter? This gives you an excellent opportunity to indulge your kids' sweet tooth while teaching them important facts about the world economy and social responsibility. And don't worry: there's chocolate involved, so they won't mind learning!
It's not always easy to find fair trade chocolate, but it's getting easier all the time as people become more aware of the facts behind the chocolate industry. Most of America's chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast, where hundreds of thousands of children -- many of them engaged in forced labor -- work on cacao plantations. That makes the idea of fair trade chocolates especially relevant to your kids!
Where to find fair trade Easter chocolate
Online or in large stores, fair trade Easter chocolate isn't as hard to find as you might think! Local supermarkets often carry fair trade products in their organic food section. Local health food stores will also carry fair trade products, and if you have local stores such as Ten Thousand Villages, you'll have no problem shopping for fair trade anything.
None of these ring a bell? No problem -- there's plenty of fair trade chocolate found online.
1. Divine Chocolate
Divine is famous for producing incredibly delicious chocolate, all of which comes from farmers who receive fair wages for their labor. You won't find any shortage of classics like candy coated mini eggs here, but don't forget to try the white chocolate bar with strawberries, either!
2. Sweet Earth Chocolates
Sweet Earth carries just about any type of fair trade Easter chocolate you can imagine, from carefully crafted gift baskets to individual mini rabbits. No matter what your family tradition, you'll find a fair trade substitute here.
3. A Lot of Chocolate
A Lot of Chocolate carries a huge range of Easter treats. Just about any kind of chocolate delight you can imagine, you'll find here, from adult treats to milk free chocolate to... well, you get the idea.
4. Bundle of Bunnies
OK, so it's not fair trade chocolates... or chocolate at all. But this adorable 'bundle of bunnies' melts your heartstrings. At only $16, it makes the perfect addition to any fair trade Easter.
This Easter season, keep social responsibility and ethics in the conversation by shopping for fair trade Easter chocolate.