cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42772420
Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer and seller. Created in 2005, the company’s market share in the Netherlands was 18 percent in 2018.
In 2022, the Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded Tony’s Chocolonely the Stop Slavery Award in the category “Goods and Services Companies”. This award recognizes companies and organizations who have set a high standard for eradicating slavery, illegal child labor, and human trafficking from their supply chains.
Tony’s Chocolonely was ranked second on the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard, which rates chocolate companies according to their human rights and environmental credentials: traceability and transparency, living income for cocoa farmers, child labour (absence of), deforestation & climate, agroforestry, and agrochemical management.
Honestly I think that’s just what chocolate actually costs when it’s not full of filler. I made the decision to just not buy American chocolate years ago and I had a Hershey’s bar at Halloween because someone brought in a bag of them to my work and holy shit it was bad, I legit couldn’t finish the tiny bar. It tasted like plastic or something and the texture didn’t even resemble milk chocolate, it was chalky and crumbly. I don’t understand how things have gotten this bad, and how American consumers accept it. Why even buy shit that doesn’t even taste good just because it’s cheap? I’d rather go without than eat the shit Hershey’s chocolate. If tariffs mean I have to stick with American made chocolate (disregarding that you can’t grow cocoa in the US) I’ll probably just stop eating chocolate because American chocolate sucks ass.
