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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by mongol on Monday September 15, 2025 @03:54AM (#45247203)
> The Fairtrade cocoa goes and the 'Rainforest Alliance' cocoa comes in, and you can guess the ethics of the latter are not to the standards of the former.

This part interests me. I have no idea what seals of approval are worthwhile or not. I just see that they are printed on the package and assume it counts for something. Is there some controversy relater to cocoa in this case?

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by pcthrowaway on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:49AM (#45247903)
Cocoa/chocolate is an industry that happens to use a fair bit of child slavery, unfortunately (among other bad practices, I just single out that one because it's the one that I consider the most abhorrent)

Getting a fair trade certification requires a supply chain inspection, and in theory, would not be possible to get for producers which have child slavery in the supply chain. Though of course, supply chain inspections are complicated and I believe this is by no means perfect (nothing is).

Rainforest Alliance certified has nothing to do with ethics in treatment of the humans involved in the supply chain, just environmental impact.

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