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Tony's chocolonely - Dutch chocolate without child slavery! (tonyschocolonely.com)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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Here's their promise to never use forced labour for their cocoa.

There's also the Tony's open chain: a pledge by many companies (not just eu, also us) to use only ethically sourced cocoa. The companies are: here

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

~~I'm pretty sure that's untrue.~~

Even so, id rather that than eating chocolate from the blood and tears of child slavery.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Cacao naturally contains heavy metals, so every chocolate product contains them as well. Some cacao contains more than others. And dark chocolate contains more cacao than milk chocolate, so it contains more heavy metals as well.

This is what Tony’s says on the topic: https://tonyschocolonely.com/blogs/other/a-small-update-on-health-and-safety-and-heavy-metals

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago

then I'm wrong, thanks for the correction