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Here's their promise to never use forced labour for their cocoa.

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[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not american or european, but yeah. They don't ship here (nor any other ethical alternatives) so sadly i'm stuck with stuff like pepsico and nestle. I try to abstain as much as possible.

You guys eat american chocolate

Why not? It tastes fine. My main problem is how they use forced labor to source the cocoa; which in this case chocolonely is the exception. Even european companies (like nestle) still suffer the same issues.

Though i'm biased since as i said, we mainly only have pepsico and nestle so i don't know how "proper" chocolate in your guys's opinion tastes.

[โ€“] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We do have pretty decent chocolate here, but it's not any of the major brands. I grew up eating Hershey, which is pretty bad (but it kind of has a special place in my heart - nostalgia and all that).