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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 09:08 AM
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Chocolate Slavery
It's not what you think. :(

http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/index.html
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:00 AM
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1. Et tu, chocolat?
:(
I believe that most of the food we buy from a commercial grocery store, and don't raise ourselves or buy from local growers, is likely tainted in one unsavory way or another.

Depressing, but not as shocking as my Yahoo image search about whipped cream last night.
Let's just say it gave my constant Food Porn comments added dimension. :rofl:
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 11:41 AM
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2. Luckily, the site has a list of the ones
Edited on Tue Feb-17-09 11:41 AM by hippywife
that are fair trade and many of them are very good to excellent quality chocolates. :9

Yeah, I imagine you got quite the eyeful. LOL You so silly! :hug:
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:15 PM
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3. It wasn't pretty. Some people really shouldn't wear whipped cream on camera.
Good about the fair trade listing though! :)
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