Hot Chocolate

I'm a proponent of Fair Trade chocolate products and try to buy them over non-Fair Trade ones. I also keep a lookout for news on Fair Trade issues and forced labor involved in chocolate production. However, most of the time, there's nothing new -- just people rehashing the same old items and so it tends to drop off my radar.

But since I haven't posted anything on Fair Trade in a long while, here's a random sampling of Fair Trade news bites:

• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2774332.ece
• http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bitter-life-of-chocolates-child-slaves/2007/11/03/1193619205911.html

and some interesting links:

• http://www.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm
• http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/
• http://www.foodrevolution.org/slavery_chocolate.htm