Chocolatiers that use ethically sourced cocoa and are not in partnership with any of the complicit companies:

A

Aloha Feels Chocolate USA

Alter Eco Foods USA , AUS

Amano Chocolate USA

Askinoise Chocolate USA

B

Bell Flower Chocolate USA

Belicious Canada

Belize Chocolate Company Belize

Belvas Chocolate Belgium

Beyond Good USA

Bibamba USA

Black Mountain Chocolate USA

C

Cacaoteca Domincan Republic

Cacao Medium AU

Captain’s Chocolate USA

Caribeans Chocolate Costa Rica

Carrack Chocolate Switzerland

Castronovo Chocolate USA

Choklat Canada

Choquiero Chocolate USA

ChoCoaque Chocolates Ecuador

Chocolate and Love UK

Chocolate Cartel USA

Chocolat Celeste Canada

Chocolate Tree UK

Chocolate Troubadour USA

Choconat Canada

COCO Chocolate UK

Conexion Chocolate Ecuador

Cru Chocolate USA

D

Dandelion Chocolate USA

Dar Chocolate USA

Dark Forest Chocolate USA

Definite Chocolate Dominican Rep.

Denman Island Chocolate Canada, USA

Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate USA

Diego’s Chocolate USA, Guatemala

Divine Chocolate Co. USA

Dr. Bronners USA

Dwaar Chocolate USA

E

Eating Evolved USA

Eat Your Hat UK

Eclipse Chocolate USA

El Ceibo USA

The Endangered Species USA

Endorfin Foods  USA

Enliven Cocoa USA

ENNA Chocolate USA

Equal Exchange USA

Equator Chocolate Uganda

Ethereal Chocolate USA

F

Fairafric Ghana

Fine and Raw Chocolate USA

FireFly Chocolate USA

Forever Cocoa UK

Foundry Chocolate New Zealand

Fresco Chocolate USA

Fruition Chocolate USA

G

Gayleen's Decadence South Africa

GEPA Chocolate Germany

Giddy Yo Yo USA

Grenada Chocolate Company Grenada

Grocer's Daughter Chocolate USA

H

Habitual Chocolate Canada

Harper Macaw USA

Harvest Chocolate USA

Hilo Shark Chocolate USA

HNINA Gourmet USA

Hogarth Chocolate New Zealand

Honest Chocolate South Africa

Hooray  Truffles Canada

I
Indi Chocolate USA

Island Sharks Chocolate USA

J

Jungle Cacao Peru Peru

K

Karuna Chocolate Italy

L

L.A. Burdick Chocolates USA

La Iguana Chocolate Costa Rica

La Siembra Cooperative Canada

Liefe Denmark

Lillie Belle Farms USA

Living Koko Aus

Luisa’s Vegan Chocolates UK

London Chocolate UK

Love’s Ice Cream and Chocolate USA

Lucocoa Chocolate UK

M

Mashpi Chocolate Ecuador

Maleku Chocolate Costa Rica

Manoa Chocolate USA

Maverick Chocolate Company USA

Mayan Monkey Spain

Mayordomo Mexico

Meraki Cacao UK

Mexican Arabica Bean Company-Wholesale Canada

Mindo Chocolate USA

Moka Origins USA

Montevérgine Brazil

Montezuma's Chocolates UK

N

Nayah Amazon Chocolates Brazil

Neary Nógs Ireland

Newman's Own Organics USA

O

Obolo Chocolate Chile

OCHO New Zealand

Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company Canada

Ombar UK

OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate USA

Ora Cacao USA

Original Hawaiian Chocolate USA

Otherly Chocolate UK

P

Pacari Organic Chocolate Ecuador

Parliament Chocolate USA

PARRÉ Chocolat USA

Pascha Chocolate USA

Play in Choc UK

Purdy's Chocolate Canada

Patric Chocolate USA

Plamil Organic Chocolate UK

Potomac Chocolate USA

Primo Chocolates USA

Pure Lovin' Chocolate Canada


R

Raaka Chocolate USA

Rainforest Chocolate Denmark

Rapunzel Pure Organics Germany

Ritual Chocolate USA

River Seas Chocolate USA

Rosie’s Confections USA

S

Samaritan Xocolata Costa Rica

Seed Chocolate UK

Seed & Bean Chocolate UK

Seek Chocolate Shop US

Shahamana Farms and Chocolate Ghana

Sibú Chocolate Costa Rica

Solkiki Chocolate UK

Soul Live Cacao USA

Sweet Impact Chocolate USA

T

Taza Chocolate USA

Tangle Chocolate USA

Terra Nostra Organic USA

Terror Chocolate USA

TCHO USA

The Xocolate Bar USA

Theo Chocolate USA

The Original Chocolate Bar USA

Tobago Estate Chocolate Tobago

Tosier Chocolate UK

Truffle Pig Chocolates USA

Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolate USA

U

Up-Up Chocolate Columbia

V

Valrhona Chocolate USA

Videri Chocolate Factory USA

Viva Cacao Can

Vivani Chocolate Germany

Vosges USA

W

Wei of Chocolate USA

X

Xocolatl Chocolate USA

Z

Zaks Chocolate USA

Zart Pralinen Austria

Zotter Austria

Ethical Chocolate Companies

The companies on this list are more than just committed to providing an ethical product. Together we make up a group of activists dedicated to eradicating the worst form of child labor including slavery.

Who is not on the list?

If any of the following companies believe me to be in error, I would be overjoyed to be proved wrong. Until I have seen some evidence to the contrary please consider boycotting:

Nestlé

Mars

Hershey’s

Cadbury

Ghiradelli

See’s Candy

Russel Stovers

World’s Finest Chocolate

Lindt

Tony’s Chocolonely

Guittard

The following are the complicit wholesalers:

Barry Callebaut

Mondelēz

Olam

Cargill

How best to shop for Slave Free Chocolate.

Looking for a Fair Trade, organic label or an explanation of where the cocoa is sourced (from a country without child labor problems) is the best we can do as consumers when purchasing chocolate. Certification programs can only go so far when it comes to eradicating the Worst Forms of Child Labor including slavery. Together they aren’t big enough to be effective. There actually isn’t enough demand for certified chocolate. This movement, though, aids in eliminating poverty where child labor becomes a symptom. I think of Fair Trade as a great ideal that we are in the early stages of adopting correctly. In the meantime, we have 2.3 million children at risk because they are living in too poor of conditions to be part of a healthy certified farm. These are the children that this organization is geared toward helping. All of the cocoa industry and all of the consumers have to participate together to be effective. I know we can do it.

In the meantime, here are some labels to guide you in the purchasing of chocolate as that is one way of sending a message.

Bean to Bar

New boutique chocolate companies are popping up all over the place.  They pride themselves on being "Bean to Bar" for ethical and culinary reasons. Read the labels and websites. How are these companies further participating in doing their part to eliminate child labor and slavery in the cocoa industy.

 

If you are a chocolate company and would like to be added to this list, please send us your information about your company. Please include in your email the following:

  1. Where do source 100% of your cocoa?

  2. Do you have something on your website to spread awareness?

  3. Do you have any initiatives that are either beneficial to the farmers or the environment?

    Thank you!


A special shout to Shahamana Farms and Chocolate. Nana was an exploited child in Ghana. He was working on a relatives farm and not enrolled in school. With the help of other family members was able to turn his life around, go to school and now owns his own ethical farm and has started to make his own chocolate. When farmers own the means of production it is a big deal. We are so proud of Nana and the other Ghanians and Ivorians that are working towards this goal.

Contact Shahamana Farms and Chocolate