After over a year of grassroots campaigning, Fair Trade advocates around the world rejoiced this morning when they woke to the news that The Hershey Company has agreed to make the switch to Fair Trade Certified cocoa in their signature chocolate bar by 2012.
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April Fools!
Hershey’s is actually NOT Fair Trade. At least not yet….
Child labor though is still no joke and over 100,000 children as young as 8 years old are still forced to slave away in the cocoa plantations of West Africa.
The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
YOU can let Hershey’s know what a Fool they really are for supporting child labor by signing the petition to make Hershey’s go Fair Trade HERE.
Already nearly 8,000 people have signed the petition.
Thanks in advance for your support!
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Hello United Students for Fair Trade!
This is great news! I was hoping you would be able to talk sometime about how we can work together on making university campus’s around the world provide 100% Fair Trade chocolate, coffee and tea and more!
Also if anyone is interested please check out the Fairly Educated conference at: http://www.fairlyeducatedconference.com