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Tony's Chocolonely is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer and seller. Created in 2005, the company's market share in the Netherlands was 18 percent in 2018.

In 2022, the Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded Tony's Chocolonely the Stop Slavery Award in the category "Goods and Services Companies". This award recognizes companies and organizations who have set a high standard for eradicating slavery, illegal child labor, and human trafficking from their supply chains.

Tony's Chocolonely was ranked second on the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard, which rates chocolate companies according to their human rights and environmental credentials: traceability and transparency, living income for cocoa farmers, child labour (absence of), deforestation & climate, agroforestry, and agrochemical management.

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

How do you even buy non-european chocolate

  • Lind Sprüngli, Camille Bloch: Swiss
  • Ritter, Trumpf, Stollwerck, Storck, Niedegger: German
  • Ferrero: Italian

Ok Milka and Toblerone are american

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Toblerone is American?????

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Always has been from Kraft/Mondelez. As of 2023, it's not even "Swiss made" anymore.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Most big brands (even in Europe) are terrible because they rely on child slavery. There's a documentary about it.

If you want to buy European chocolate, well it can't be fully European because Europe doesn't grow cocoa, at least look for fair trade chocolate. That or an equivalent should be the minimum claim a company makes. I say claim, because that's what they are claims. None us will know for sure until we step foot in the places where these companies source their chocolate.

If you want an easy list https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ has some. Top of the list of small, european companies:

Tony's is top of the "medium and large companies". Rittersport is also up there, but I don't trust that at all. They are closely followed by Nestlé, lol. Fuck Nestlé.

Lindt is best when made in Switzerland. They also have factories in other countries, but it's not the same.

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[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Canadian here. Is there anywhere to get reasonably priced bulk chocolate chips or chunks for baking, in Europe, that ship to North America?

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Callebaut is a common supplier for bakeries in Europe. That stuff is definitely not slavery free though.

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yea we have Callebaut in Canada as well. It's also ~$100/cad for 2.5 kg or ~$25/500g. That's a do without kinda price for us. I get we have to expect to pay more but we simply don't have the means for that.

[–] bettertecheu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2.5kg is about 60 euros for me in the Netherlands. That is about 95 CAD, so not much of a difference.

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Gotcha. Thanks for the info. Since my family of five lives on less than $20,000/year Canadian due to my disability, I guess chocolate is out now. Oh well. It could be worse.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago

French fair trade brand with a lot of choice: Éthiquable

Not sure if they export much. The prices in France are reasonable considering cocoa prices make even junk chocolate quite expensive.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Also really nice is the chocolate from Vivani https://vivani.de/en/vivani-en/

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Nay@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Bought one about a year ago just to try it... It was okay. Definitely not worth the price...

Aldi chocolate is the way to go, imo.

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