Comments on: Slavery Ruins Everything

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:30:08 +0000

tcho.com

sustainable chocolate 🙂

By: Nicola

Nicola — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:49:42 +0000

So, I had a dream the other night. I have been a little anxious lately, for reasons I blame on my HRH ( Horrible Russian Husband ( credit to russialite blog for fantastic universal name for Post Soviet ass****’s everywhere )

In this fantastic and telling dream, I am standing in a whole foods market and spy a big jar of chocolate sauce. Immediately, I proclaimed,’ Oh, now this stuff changes my brain chemistry just looking at it! ‘

How’s that for a subconscious crazy lady self diagnosis. Cadbury’s fruit and nut works wonders for me, too. Obviously.

By: Eva

Eva — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:56:31 +0000

i can’t stop reading your blog. i have to say i love you. hehe.
and i’d love to send you some of my favourite chocolate!! where the toblerone and my humble self come from

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:33:32 +0000

If I buy chocolate, I buy organic and fair-trade, but something I discovered a few months ago, made me rethink the brands I bought and that was the fact that several small organic brands have been bought out by larger brands such as Hersheys and Kraft. So even though it’s more work I look up the brands I buy and make sure that they are small and honest companies. Just takes some looking around online or a trip to a local health store…

Love, Jules

By: Cricket9

Cricket9 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:05:25 +0000

Oh, crap – it seems that NOTHING is simple or clear anymore:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fair-trade-chocolate-a-myth.html

I, like Kate, don’t eat meat (I do eat shrimps tough), should not buy anything made in China, no diamonds – well, I can live without them, no this and no that – either it’s bad for you, or full of pesticides, or unethically produced. I go grocery shopping and then strange paralysis descends on me… truly, ignorance is bliss.

By: Dexter VanDango

Dexter VanDango — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:57:15 +0000

Hmmmm ..here’s an idea for one-stop shopping.. women’s shoes made out of chocolate. Fortunes could be made.. “Turn bunions into funions!”

By: sisty

sisty — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:01:46 +0000

xoxo

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:10:20 +0000

sisty – I wondered why you said I was exasperating until just now, when my husband pointed out the spellcheck mistake.

honeypants – “Milk chocolate is a waste of calories.” So true. The first time I tasted dark chocolate with sea salt, I saw the face of god.

By: candy

candy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:46:15 +0000

I am sorry Dru, I didn’t mean to cite Hershey’s as a good chocolate, I didn’t know they used slavery..I apologize. I would stop eating anything that makes people unhappy. I can give up any food. I am the type who once I see something on tv (horror scene, documentary, gross picture), I can’t go on without thinking about it, for at least few days, Then it gets inside my brain until something triggers it. If for example, I see something bloody on tv while I am eating I stop eating. I have a very good memory and that doesn’t help me deal with trauma very well. I watched the documentary on diamonds and watched the movie blood diamond, I am not attracted to that stone, people die because of it. Worse, they get mutilated, both hands cut. See, if I am in an argument with my husband over something, that thing should go or we find a solution about it, it’s not worth our soul, really? It happened with a bike, for example, I started hating that thing because of an argument over it. I hate arguing over things or people, off course, if people are involved, then I stop seeing them or getting them involved with my life….
However, if a person likes chocolate and doesn’t care, then that’s their problem, not mine.
I also come from a third world country, and immigrate as a toodler, so Iunderstand what you mean.
Much love
candy

By: Tracey

Tracey — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:40:51 +0000

Just saw this film the other day… http://www.nothinglikechocolate.com/

and unfortunately Fair Trade doesn’t mean slavery wasn’t involved in your chocolate bar… balls.