Čokolada

[Mateja]

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> bonbonjero Godiva

o, tole pa moja mama vsako leto dobi za RD od nekoga in potem druzno slovesno pomljaskamo te bonboncke ... pa tako licno embalazo majo

 

jaz pa dons nasla ene cokoladke, ki so tko zapakirane kot kaksen tobak ... pa zlooo dobre (probala temno s karameliziranimi mandlji in temno z zrni rdecega popra)...Dolfin

[Ajda-]

jaz pa dons nasla ene cokoladke, ki so tko zapakirane kot kaksen tobak    ... pa zlooo dobre    (probala temno s karameliziranimi mandlji in temno z zrni rdecega popra)...Dolfin   

 

Te dolfin čokolade so toook dobre mmm

[santos]

zmanjkal kruha... sam, ko je nutela v opciji...lahk tud brez !

[Pinka]

Izraz ta tvoj je prijatu se ja pa res potrudu, zelo lepo od njega. Upam, da zelo uživaš ob grizljanju njegovih čokoladic. Ja no zdej bom mogla pa še jaz eno pojest, k tok govorim o tem.

 

[misoni]

kje se pa dobi to GOdiva bonbonjero?

jaz naceloma jem samo Lindt 85% al pa Dolfin 88% kakava. in ne morem brez nje.

sem bila pa ze tako odvisna od sladkarij, da sem morala vsak dan zmazat nekaj. zdaj sem se zacela mal kontrolirat, ampak s temno cokolado tako ali tako ne mores pretiravat.

[Ajda-]

včeraj sem zmazala 4 tiste kinder čokoladke (8 jih je v eni škatlici - 10 dg) - mmmmljask to je res dobra čokolada -čeprav je tud kinderjajček ful dobr

[child]

i*m just eating it KitKat

[LeINA]

Tu za mene sploh ni dileme ... Lazje sem brez kruha kot brez cokolade ...

s santosom se lahk kar skup na nutelo spravma ...drgac pa milka s keksi in rafaelce to je pr men na prvem mestu

[majica]

a je spet kdo reku čokolada?

[Pika Pikica]

Joj, k sm lih eurokrem vidla. Veste kaj je super dobr? Sladoled, pol pa eurokrem čez. Pač tist, k ga mate najraj. Jst osebno - sladoled cookies + lino lada. Za crknt dobr, k eurokrem mrzu rata, pa se tko vleče, pa pol sladoled. Joj, slinm se.

[Guest sstane]

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Joj, k sm lih eurokrem vidla. Veste kaj je super dobr? Sladoled, pol pa eurokrem čez. Pač tist, k ga mate najraj. Jst osebno - sladoled cookies + lino lada. Za crknt dobr, k eurokrem mrzu rata, pa se tko vleče, pa pol sladoled. Joj, slinm se.       

Al pa ona tvoja

[child]

it, jes, jes it gou nau

[emmzi]

čokoladni sladoled.................. morje mojih sanj..........................

kaj moreš če si sladkoholik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHOCOLATE FOREVER AND EVER

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Why it’s important

 

Most of our chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast region of West Africa, where cocoa production is an enormous part of the economy. In Ghana, 40 percent of the country’s export revenues come from the sale of cocoa. Unfortunately, very little of the profit goes to the farmers who grow the cocoa beans. Cocoa farmers receive about a penny for a candy bar selling for 60 cents.

 

In fact, the difficulty in making a living at cocoa farming has spawned an increase in child and even slave labor drawn fromChoco factory poor neighboring countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo. Children and other workers are forced to work long days picking and processing cocoa beans (it takes 400 of these pods to make just one pound of chocolate). Very few of the children have the opportunity to attend school.

 

Fair Trade cocoa offers farmers an opportunity to make a real living. The Fair Trade Certified production criteria guarantee a minimum price and insure that no child or forced labor is used.

 

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vir: http://www.newdream.org/consumer/cocoa.php

 

Does It Really Satisfy?

 

Chocolate Good, mmmm...Americans consumed 3.3 billion pounds of chocolate in 2000 alone (at a cost of $13 billion). We are, by far, the world's largest consumer of chocolate products. We exercise an enormous amount of buying power in the chocolate market. It's time we start using that power.

 

Currently, the bulk of our buying power supports a system that routinely underpays cocoa bean farmers for their produce. As a direct result, cocoa farmers in West Africa and Central America cut costs by taking their own children out of school to work on the farms, or worse-- by conscripting slave children from even more economically impoverished countries like Burkina Faso and Mali.

 

The labor itself is strenuous for an adult, let alone a child. For every pound of chocolate produced, 400 cocoa pods must be picked and sliced open to remove their beans. Child workers must wield machetes while working in close proximity to dangerous quantities of pesticides and insecticides First-hand accounts from child slaves also attest that beatings by farm owners are common.

 

It is not only the workers on cocoa farms who are mistreated; the environment suffers greatly from the continuously expanding practice of unsustainable cocoa cultivation. Conventional farming practices have led to massive clear-cutting of vast tracks of tropical rainforest to satisfy the world's expanding demand for chocolate. By 2000, 14% of the Ivory Coast's rainforests had been clear-cut to facilitate direct exposure cocoa farming. Unlike the practice of traditional farmers who grow cacao plants in the shade of a larger tree cover, direct exposure cocoa production requires a greater use of pesticides and often fails to include crop rotation, which preserves the biodiversity of plant and animal species in the region. The combined assault of rainforest deforestation and single-crop plantings jeopardizes the survival of the many endangered species that live in and depend on these lush tropical habitats. Meanwhile, the overuse of chemical pesticides poisons the air and water of neighboring communities and fosters more resistant strains of plant diseases.

 

To counter the effects of unsustainable cocoa bean production, the Fair Trade Association was established to ensure that farmers would be fairly paid for their produce. The Fair Trade system stipulates that farmers will receive "at least $.80 per pound [of cocoa beans] or $150 per metric ton above the world price if the world price rises above $.80 per pound." They also demand that no child or forced labor be used in the cultivation of cocoa.

 

Though the Fair Trade system does not require farmers' products to be organically certified, they require "integrated crop management" and have banned the use of several pesticides. Next, farmers are paid at least $.88 per pound (or $.08 more per pound) for certified organic cocoa beans, thus establishing a monetary incentive to grow organically. Furthermore, Fair Trade cooperatives are required to reserve a share of their profits for technical workshops where participating farmers learn the ecological value of sustainable, organic farming.

There is plenty you can do (and eat):

 

Chocolate factoryGiven the enormous efforts of the Fair Trade Association, one would hope we'd be making progress toward putting an end to the exploitation of cocoa farmers. Sadly, our largest chocolate manufacturers, namely Hershey and M&M/Mars, still refuse to use Fair Trade chocolate in their production cycle. Without the financial support of these corporations that make up over two-thirds of the chocolate and cocoa industry, Fair Trade products will have to continually struggle to compete in the candy market.

 

A population of 42,000 farmers in 8 countries currently produces Fair Trade cocoa: Ghana, Cameroon, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Belize. As a Conscious Consumer, you can help these Fair Trade cooperatives gain a needed boost in the chocolate market by purchasing Fair Trade certified chocolate. To buy delectable Fair Trade treats in time for Valentine's Day, check out our listings of retailers and wholesalers who sell fair trade products.

Want to give the Fair Trade farmers even more help? Send a letter to M&M/Mars, urging them to support the fair payment of cocoa bean farmers by using Fair Trade cocoa in their products.

 

vir: http://www.newdream.org/consumer/chocolatemore.php

 

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The Chocolate Industry:

 

Abusive Child Labor and Poverty Behind the Sweetness

 

While chocolate is sweet for us, it is heartbreaking for cocoa producers and their families. Most cocoa farmers are trapped in poverty and forced to rely on child labor and even child slavery against their heartfelt wishes to do otherwise. Meanwhile, the chocolate companies that have exacerbated these problems - and profit from them - refuse to offer the Fair Trade alternative farmers need to make ends meet. The six largest cocoa producing countries are the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, and Cameroon. Cocoa has especially significant effects on the economy and the population in these countries. For example, in Ghana, cocoa accounts for 40% of total export revenues, and two million farmers are employed in cocoa production. The Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer, providing 43% of the world's cocoa.

 

In 2000, a report by the US State Department concluded that in recent years approximately 15,000 children aged 9 to 12 have been sold into forced labor on cotton, coffee and cocoa plantations in the north of the country. A June 15, 2001 document (PDF 850kb) released by the Geneva, Switzerland-based International Labor Organization (ILO) reported that trafficking in children is widespread in West Africa. (For ILO definitions of these labor violations, see ILO Convention 182 on Child Labor ILO Convention 29 on Forced Labor.)

 

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) followed up these reports with an extensive study of cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, directly involving over 4,500 producers. The results, released in August 2002, indicated that child slavery is thankfully very limited, other egregious forms of child labor are unfortunately widespread. An estimated 284,000 children are working on cocoa farms in hazardous tasks such as using machetes and applying pesticides and insecticides without the necessary protective equipment. Many of these children work on family farms, the children of cocoa farmers who are so trapped in poverty they have to make the hard choice to keep their children out of school to work. The ITTA also reported that about 12,500 children working on cocoa farms had no relatives in the area, a warning sign for trafficking.

 

These child laborers face arduous work, as cacao pods must be cut from high branches with long-handled machetes, split open, and their beans scooped out. Children who are involved in the worst labor abuses come from countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Togo -- nations that are even more destitute than the impoverished Ivory Coast. Parents in these countries sell their children to traffickers believing that they will find honest work once they arrive in Ivory Coast and then send their earnings home. But as soon as they are separated from their families, the young boys are made to work for little or nothing. The children work long and hard -- they head into the fields at 6:00 in the morning and often do not finish until 6:30 at night.

 

" Though he had worked countless days harvesting cocoa pods -- 400 of which are needed to make a pound of chocolate -- Diabate has never tasted the finished product. "I don't know what chocolate is," he told the press.

 

It is unbelievable and unacceptable that, in the beginning of the 21st century, the children of West Africa are trapped in such desperation and even slave labor.

 

These children typically lack the opportunity for education, leaving them with no way out of their cycle of despair. The IITA noted that 66% of child cocoa workers in the Ivory Coast did not attend school. About 64% of children on cocoa farms are under age 14, meaning that the loss of an education comes at an early age for the majority of children on cocoa farms.

 

The cause: "Free trade," structural adjustment, and corporate control

 

These problems are largely tied to insufficient income for cocoa producers and their communities. The IITA found that annual West African cocoa revenues average $30 to $110 per household member, making "it difficult for families to have sufficient income to meet their needs." Mana Osei Yawu III, Chief of Niveneso Village in Ghana has said " We had no water in the village, we just had dirty water from rivers and streams. People spent a lot of time collecting water and there was always someone who was sick. Many people in the village were wondering how much longer they could stay in the village without water, because they were getting sick. The money we used to get from selling our cocoa beans to the government didn't give us enough to buy materials or a pump for our own water supply."

 

Producer income remain low because major chocolate and cocoa processing companies have refused to take any steps to ensure stable and sufficient prices for cocoa producers. World cocoa prices fluctuate widely and have been well below production costs in the last decade. Though cocoa prices have show moderate increases in the past few years, cocoa producers remain steeped in debt accumulated when prices were below production costs. Producers typically also get only half the world price, as they must use exploitative middlemen to sell their crop.

 

The effects of insufficient cocoa income have been exacerbated by deregulation of agriculture in West Africa, which abolished commodity boards across the region, leaving small farmers at the mercy of the market. This economic crisis has forced farmers to cut their labor costs, and tragically that has meant relying on slave labor or pulling children out of school to work on family farms. These small farmers and their children remained trapped in a cycle of poverty, without hope for sufficient income or access to basic education or health care. As the IITA summarized, "Interviews with community leaders indicated that the greater employment of family labor was a common response to the recent drop in cocoa prices and the crisis in cocoa incomes. In addition to the substitution of family labor for paid labor, farmers have also reduced the use of purchased inputs. The net effect of both of these factors has led to lower productivity and incomes, and, perhaps most importantly, to reduced household investments in children's education."

 

For years, US chocolate manufacturers have said they are not responsible for the conditions on cocoa plantations since they don't own them. But the $13 billion chocolate industry is heavily consolidated, with just two firms -- Hershey's and M&M/Mars -- controlling two-thirds of the US chocolate candy market. Surely, these global corporations have the power and the ability to reform problems in the supply chain. What they lack is the will

 

After a string of media exposes and the threat of government action jeopardized their image, the chocolate industry finally agreed to take action in 2001. On November 30, 2001 the US chocolate industry released a Protocol and Joint Statement outlining their plans to work toward eliminating the worst forms of child labor (see ILO Convention 182) and forced labor (see ILO Convention 29) in cocoa production.

 

Unfortunately, the plan does not guarantee stable and sufficient prices for cocoa, or any guarantee that cocoa farmers will receive a fair income in the end Without such a guarantee, there is now way to ensure that abusive child labor on cocoa farms will cease for good.

 

The solution: Fair Trade cocoa and chocolate

 

Fortunately, there is a way to correct the economic imbalances of the cocoa system: Fair Trade. Fair Trade chocolate and cocoa productsare marked with the "Fair Trade Certified" and Fair Trade Federation labels. Fair Trade is an international monitoring and certification system that guarantees a minimum price under direct contracts, prohibits abusive child labor, and promoted environmental sustainability. The Fair Trade system guarantees that farmers receive a "floor price" of at least $.80/pound for non-organic cocoa and $0.89/pound for organic cocoa. Producers receive $150 per metric ton above the world price if the world price rises above the Fair Trade floor price. This gives farmers the stable and sufficient income they need to support their families with dignity. Fair Trade prohibits abusive child labor and forced labor. Farms are monitored once per year to ensure that all conditions are met.See the full criteria for Fair Trade (PDF 278kb). Fair Trade cocoa comes from Belize, Bolivia, Cameroon, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Peru. Read our cooperative profiles to learn more about these Fair Trade cocoa farmers.

 

Our Fair Trade Chocolate/cocoa Campaign is pressuring large companies like Mars, Inc. (maker of M&M's, Snickers, and Milky Way) and other members of the Chocolate Manufacturers Association of America to sell Fair Trade chocolate and cocoa products immediately. We also support a network of K-12 schools, campus groups and community activists advocating for Fair Trade chocolate and cocoa around the USA.

 

Despite growing demand, Mars, Inc. has refused to offer farmers the Fair Trade alternative they so desperately need. In June, more than 200 organizations signed a letter to M&M/Mars supporting Global Exchange's Campaign demands, - and asking the company to address the injustices in the cocoa fields by starting to offer Fair Trade chocolate. Through subsequent national consumer advocacy, M&M/Mars has received an outpouring of requests for Fair Trade-- including more than 1,000 letters from schoolchildren, and over than 5,000 faxes and countless e-mails and phone calls from adults. In February of 2004, two coalitions of highly respected national organizations requested meetings with M&M/Mars to discuss Fair Trade purchasing, meetings which M&M/Mars unfortunately refused to hold.

 

Despite such overwhelming appeals, M&M/Mars continues to refuse to offer Fair Trade chocolate, and reiterates total faith in the industry Protocol and other development projects. Despite the good intentions behind these efforts, none ensures the minimum price producers need, and none involves the independent certification that consumers want. Fair Trade incorporates all these components, offering the best way for M&M/Mars to realize the goals of the Protocol and maintain consumer support.

 

Get involved!

 

Given M&M/Mars' continued lack of interest in selling Fair Trade chocolate and ensuring a decent life for farmers and their families, it is clear that we need to keep pushing for Fair Trade chocolate in growing numbers! Global Exchange supports a network of grassroots activists in local advocacy and education. We're also helping schools and community organizations convert their candy bar fundraisers to Fair Trade sources. Please join us in these efforts today and make a real difference for cocoa farming communities in struggle around the world. Check out our action pack and contact us to get involved today!!

 

Special news for concerned parents and teachers: We are now distributing activity books for K-12 classrooms and parents! Teachers and parents can use the materials to give children the facts about how kids just like them never get to eat chocolate or play but instead spend their whole time working in the cocoa fields. The materials encourage children to make their voices heard by sending candy wrappers to M&M/Mars with letters asking the company to offer Fair Trade chocolate. For more information, please contact our Fair Trade Campaigns at fairtrade@globalexchange.org or call 415-255-7296.

 

vir: http://www.newdream.org/consumer/chocolate.html

[Alice in Wonderland]

I Chocolate!

[klarus]

men čokolada zapaše glih 1x na dva mesca, včasih uspem pojest eno 100g čokolado v enem tednu, se pa zgodi da je ne pojem nini v 3h mescih. če pa me že čokolada zamika, pa si kupim od lindta uno s 70% kakava češnjevim polnilom in čilijem

[Mana]

...jaz sem pa danes pobasala že cele 200g bajadere

kvaje to dobro..člouk komi verjame x!x

[matjazz]

Ma men je čokolada ko kava.

Morem jo nujno dobit vsaj enkrat na teden.

[Paris]

70% Lindt, božanska sam je pa tut draga

[Guest mačona]

ko je zunaj tako turobno in vlažno, je čokolada dobrodošla.

[Mick]

Men je vedno dobrodošla, zadnje čase sem čist dnevni čoko-odvisnik.....

[evelin]

Sedaj se ja pa še meni zluštala..........ma nič, gram po košček.

[Guest sstane]

Sedaj se ja pa še meni zluštala..........ma nič, gram po košček.

Nimam na zalogi

[klarus]

70% Lindt, božanska sam je pa tut draga

ma una ko je s čilijem je še bolš sam pojem jo pa res v mescu in pol

[Guest sstane]

ma una ko je s čilijem je še bolš sam pojem jo pa res v mescu in pol

Dobra ideja, si bom jutri eno naredil