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Two Bags of Teeny Tiny Chocolate Hearts-1 Hazelnut Bag, 1 White Chocolate Bag, Fair Trade & Organic Of Course
Sweet Earth Chocolates
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Great to insert into Valentine’s Day cards to delight a loved one! Or sprinkle a few on a snack or dessert plate or platter. Order by Monday morning, Feb. 4, 2008 and we should be able to get it to you by Valentine’s Day! After that date, we'll do our best!
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From Sweet Earth Chocolates:
"We believe that capitalism comes in different flavors--not just the survival-of-the-fittest sort, but a softer, kinder, and more sustainable way of doing business that considers the needs of our planet and its people. Chocolate that's better for the environment.
Consuming chocolate made from organically grown cocoa is one giant step toward reducing our dependence on petroleum-based agricultural inputs while supporting small growers who intercrop growing as many as 6 crops on one small plot. This is a stark contrast with plantation-style growing, where the rainforest is cut down to permit mono-cropping and petroleum-based agricultural chemicals are commonly used. We believe that the environment has been damaged enough by these POPs (persistant organic pollutants) that kill our lakes and streams.
By selling organic chocolate, we are encouraging cocoa growers to find other ways to combat plant diseases. We're not talking about living in the past - but we need to live lighter on the earth in order to have a brighter future.
Chocolate that's better for the people
Fair Trade certification is a guarantee to processors, handlers, retailers and consumers, that the cocoa beans used in this chocolate were produced in a way that does no social harm.
The U.S. State Department estimates that over 15,000 child-slaves work on plantations in the Ivory Coast. They have been kidnapped or sold by their parents to work from age 8 on cutting cocoa pods from trees and processing them, often at the end of a whip. In other countries of West Africa, children work with deadly chemicals, applying pesticides and fungicides to trees without wearing protective garments and without proper training. Amazingly, some of the cocoa used in popular confections - the chocolate you eat every day is grown and harvested under such conditions.
Fair Trade certification guarantees that you are not an unwitting participant in this very inhumane situation. Fair Trade-certified cocoa only comes from certified farmers' cooperatives, organized to strengthen their farmer-members economically so they can provide for their families and educate their children.
Our promise to you
Like the Hippocratic oath, First, do no harm. You can feel secure that eating our Fair-Trade-certified chocolate does no harm, either to the earth or the people who depend on it.
Currently, our beans come from either the Dominican Republic or Costa Rica, the only two countries in the world where there are farmers' cooperatives that are certified organic and Fair Trade. In the meantime, a portion of our profits from our chocolate bars will go to support West African cooperatives in their efforts to become organic.
Organic and Fair Trade are like two soybeans in the pod of sustainability. Organic supports the soil and human health, protecting us from chemical pollutants. Fair Trade promotes community health by paying the farmer a higher price. Support the future by purchasing our delicious, high-quality products made from fair trade and organic chocolate."
Organic
1. Promotes biodiversity
2. Sustainable practices
3. Elimination of exposure of children to nasty chemicals normally used on cocoa
4. No fumigants used during export.
Fair Trade-certified
5. Fairer prices for the farmer.
6. A greater numbe of the farmers’ children go to school
7. Gender equality
8. Diversification to promote economic health.
9. No child slavery.
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