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"It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 6.35 oz bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.

And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon."

From https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/faqs

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[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Quite succesful in the Netherlands.

In 2003, after discovering that the majority of chocolate produced at the time had links to human exploitation, Dutch television producer and journalist Teun van de Keuken began producing programs about the horrors of the commercial cocoa industry on his show Keuringsdienst van Waarde. Furthermore, he submitted a request to be prosecuted for knowingly purchasing an illegally manufactured product, which prosecutors declined to do.

After three years of unsuccessful attempts to change the industry through investigative efforts, Van de Keuken decided to start producing chocolate bars himself. The brand was called "Tony's Chocolonely" with "Tony" (= Teun) and "Chocolonely" in reference to Teun van de Keuken feeling as if he was the only person in the industry who was interested in eradicating slavery. Van de Keuken sold 20,000 bars in two days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%27s_Chocolonely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teun_van_de_Keuken

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[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the advertisement?

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funny that they made their brand the biggest piece of all in the representation.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm reading it like they colonize Africa directly

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"It's UNFAIR that all of these countries exist! All must bow before Tony's West African Company."

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[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some info, that's interesting and helps balance this blatant advertisement. Tony's was started by Dutch television maker Teun van der Keuken. He worked on a program that exposes products for their production methods and false marketing and so on. They stumbled onto the slavery that's part of the cacao industry. He asked to be arrested for eating chocolate, and in doing so enabling slave labor, but he wasn't. He started out Tony's Chocolonely to attempt to change the chocolate industry. He's not part of the company anymore. He has concluded the mission has failed, and is very critical of his former company, saying they've lost sight of the aim: slave-free chocolate.

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[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago
[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Around $5 and good chocolate

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[–] Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (13 children)

If they paid the farmers more they could just make regular shaped chocolate

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that is exactly why this company was founded.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Fait point, but it's a statement about the industry as a whole, not their own production. Even if they were to distribute profits evenly over the entire production chain of their products (which I agree they probably don't), the industry as a whole would still have this problem.

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[–] sinceasdf@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Damn that's just an ad. There is no escape

[–] TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This is my favorite brand of chocolate rn

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The irregular pieces make it much easier to eat. You make a conscious decision how much you break off, instead of just getting another 4 squares.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Yes... haha.... conscious eating... haha...

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

Neato advertisement!

Products looks like shit.

[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

It's also why I no longer buy it. It's a PITA to eat.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The billionaire chocolate bar would leave only the wrapping paper to the consumer.

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