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If chocolate is not Fairtrade, then don’t buy it’, says Archbishop
Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, says buying Fairtrade chocolate would help to end the ‘21st-century iniquity’ of child labour. The Archbishop, speaking to church and other community members in Hull, the constituency of the abolitionist MP William Wilberforce, said that although child labour was prohibited in this country there was a connection with Britain’s manufacturers because of the conditions under which cocoa was produced. According to the Stop the Traffik campaign for an end to modern slavery, more than 12,000 trafficked children are working on Ivory Coast plantations to produce 43 per cent of the world’s cocoa beans. The Archbishop recently launched a ‘chocolate challenge’, in which he asked consumers to make a ‘positive choice’ by buying ‘only Fairtrade chocolate from now on’. He said: ‘If you can’t find it in your favourite shop, ask to see the manager and say that you will only buy goods which are not produced by slave labour. Say you want to trade fairly. If you keep that promise, you could be playing your part in ending a 21st-century iniquity.’ Why the Easter egg?In Christian times, the egg was a symbol of new life. The Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lentóin the West, eggs were forbidden during Lent as well as other traditional fast days. It was also traditional to use up all of the household’s eggs before Lent began, which established the tradition of Pancake Day. The egg itself is a symbol of the Resurrection while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it. Source: Wikipedia
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The British eat more chocolate than any other nation in Europe. Latest figures show that we account for 32 per cent of the total market value in Europe, estimated at £3.7 billion Cadbury and Fry & Sons started making chocolate in the 1840s KitKat is the favourite chocolate bar in Britain: 47 eaten per second |
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