Venezuela's Chocolate Revolution

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:14 pm

Can I volunteer as a taste tester? Where's Chocolate, she's wants some too!

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:21 pm

I'm heading down there that would be my dream job...Chocolate taster..:p

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:46 pm

And yet its sad that many of the kids whose families harvest the cocoa beans, have never even tasted chocolate.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:45 am

Next time you buy a chocolate bar think about where it comes from.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1282774.stm

British chocolate giant Cadbury has appealed for an international effort to stamp out child slavery on African cocoa plantations.

Fair trade goods are a burgeoning market here. Howabout in the States?

chocoholic · Post by **chocoholic** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:44 am

Soon as I signed on my automatic chocolate sensor brought me straight here!

Where do I sign on for the tasting corps - ready and willing and VERY able!:D