Fazer Chocolate - it's not internationally known unless you know of Finland and know how tasty their chocolate is.
How it doesn't leave a horrible after taste in your mouth like the crap you can get in North America (i.e. Hershey's - my personal opinion anyhow), your teeth aren't slimy and brown after a small bite, they use pure ingredients and the Finns do love their chocolate!
But I am currently betting that the Fazer stocks (if any) and their sales and profits have dipped an all time low when reports have shown that their chocolate is being created by child labor and slaves.
This article is in Finnish unfortunately but if you take that whole link and copy and paste it to Google Translate, you'll get a rough idea of what's going on.
Fazer does not promise or guarantee that their cocoa is not handled or processed by children who are orphans, or under-paid (most not paid at all I am sure) or bullied into working at the plantations.
So what does Fazer do?
They decide to create an advertisement (now they regret it apparently) promising that they will take 5 cents of every Fazer chocolate bar sold and put that towards building a school in Africa (where the cocoa plantation is located) for children.
Aww, how wonderful and kind - they didn't have to do that! is possibly what you're thinking - right?
Well, many Finns weren't impressed and I can't blame them.
I'm curious when are the children going to go to school when they're working for the cocoa factory? Would the school be beneficial at all if it's empty?
Why not pay the children (older ones that are finished their education) to work? Instead of hiring brutes to haul them out of their homes and slash them with knives as a means of getting them to haul themselves to the nearest cocoa plant?
Oh and here's the best part: the cost of building the school is cheaper than the cost of the advertisements in a Helsinki paper.
And yes, I do realize this is only a small scale compared to other world-life crises - but for those who use Fazer products nearly everyday - this is shocking I'm sure.
Until you get your sh*t straightened out - I'll be skipping the Fazer chocolate too.
How it doesn't leave a horrible after taste in your mouth like the crap you can get in North America (i.e. Hershey's - my personal opinion anyhow), your teeth aren't slimy and brown after a small bite, they use pure ingredients and the Finns do love their chocolate!
But I am currently betting that the Fazer stocks (if any) and their sales and profits have dipped an all time low when reports have shown that their chocolate is being created by child labor and slaves.
This article is in Finnish unfortunately but if you take that whole link and copy and paste it to Google Translate, you'll get a rough idea of what's going on.
Fazer does not promise or guarantee that their cocoa is not handled or processed by children who are orphans, or under-paid (most not paid at all I am sure) or bullied into working at the plantations.
So what does Fazer do?
They decide to create an advertisement (now they regret it apparently) promising that they will take 5 cents of every Fazer chocolate bar sold and put that towards building a school in Africa (where the cocoa plantation is located) for children.
Aww, how wonderful and kind - they didn't have to do that! is possibly what you're thinking - right?
Well, many Finns weren't impressed and I can't blame them.
I'm curious when are the children going to go to school when they're working for the cocoa factory? Would the school be beneficial at all if it's empty?
Why not pay the children (older ones that are finished their education) to work? Instead of hiring brutes to haul them out of their homes and slash them with knives as a means of getting them to haul themselves to the nearest cocoa plant?
Oh and here's the best part: the cost of building the school is cheaper than the cost of the advertisements in a Helsinki paper.
And yes, I do realize this is only a small scale compared to other world-life crises - but for those who use Fazer products nearly everyday - this is shocking I'm sure.
Until you get your sh*t straightened out - I'll be skipping the Fazer chocolate too.
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