On AlterNet: chocolate

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "chocolate"

The Dark Side of Chocolate: What Our Love Affair With Cocoa Means for the World

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. February 6, 2012.

In addition to labor issues, chocolate plantations can be responsible for deforestation. But it can also be empowering to farmers and relatively healthy for the environment.

The Chocolate You Eat Is Likely Made by Enslaved Children

Andrew Korfhage, Other Words. October 18, 2010.

On Halloween much of the chocolate Americans will hand out to trick-or-treaters will be tainted by the labor of enslaved children.

Under Guise of Combating Slavery, One Human Rights Group Is Colluding With the Exploitative Chocolate Industry

Christian Parenti, Democracy Now!. September 14, 2009.

Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, champions his reform of the chocolate industry and halting child labor in West Africa. But no such thing has happened.

Chocolate: A Health Food After All

Esther Walker, The Independent UK. January 4, 2008.

For centuries people celebrated chocolate as a natural health remedy. Where did chocolate lose its way?

Do Women Enjoy Chocolate More Than Sex?

Danielle Egan, The Tyee. March 29, 2007.

Author Joan Sewell says so in her new autobiography where she embraces her low libido. The media have hailed her book as "brilliant" but scientific literature disagrees with her theory.