At least you were better prepared than I was.

" That chocolate is amazing Phoebe. How did you do it?" "Well my grandmother got it from her grandmother. Nesle Toulouse" ".... I'm sorry. What was the name again?" "Nesle Toulouse" "... Do you mean NESTLÉ TOOL HOUSE" "............ You américains always butcher the French language" If you know you know 😂

In my quest for elimination of sugar and eating as healthy as possible I still allow myself two squares of 100 percent cacao every day. You can't win. No you can't.

That’s a way to make you think 😂 great teacher.

@@Joe-sg9ll What? How? Why is this evil? Honestly, this is the person doing better than most at their job in education.

How far back in history do you have to go to get to a time when this wasn’t the case?

​@@CorePathwayuntil the 80s, if you went to gun showing asked for a semi automatic and a tactical vest, they would have called the cops.. so that faar

non-politicians offering thoughts and prayers is the same as politicians offering thoughts and prayers.

@@DBsNature Except politicians were elected to do something. Civilians get "the vote" (and those thoughts and prayers).

speaking of which, is John Oliver doing an episode on chocolate because he's not allowed by the parent company to criticize Israel's ongoing genocide?

Alternately, “White people suck.”

last week tonight - its worse than you may realize *insert high school pic of john oliver here someone call HBO's marketing team!

Wait... That isn't the motto? /j

"Whatever you're expecting, you're not ready for this" was heard like a thousand times on this show!

@@d1943i Last week tonight: it’s worse than you may realise, but the lawyers are always in business!

Right?! And now I've just bought so much of his chocolate... I hope it's good...

@@frankiefavero1666we also have that in Spain. Someone mentioned 2€ a bar, not really, here it’s around 3,50€ which is definitely pricey compared to 2€ nestle ones, but Tony’s is definitely the only chocolate I’ve been buying for years now.

Did you like it? It's quite good I think

@@Annava omg loved it! Especially the caramel and sea salt one... delicious!

@@frankiefavero1666 yes, it's my favourite too!

/same

Nestle

How cacao nuts are harvested to make chocolate

You and me both 🤦🏻‍♂️

Same, lol

That is because western governments still rule with African countries in neocolonyal style.

​@oddlywired7935 yes you are. It's the unfortunate truth that it's not realistic not to eat chocolate. By that measure never buy jeans, or a new car, or vegetables at the store. It's the unfortunate truth that in almost everything we buy, some poor person or child slave probably made it or farmed it. Not buying things is not gonna fix this, only complete overhauls to our very existence would change things and that simply isn't going to happen.

I visited Ghana twice already. Wonderful country & nice people. Since then I want to support the local cocoa farmers and only buy my cocoa and chocolate from "Fairafric", which runs the only chocolate factory of Ghana which keeps the production from cocoa bean to chocolate all in the country - all organic & fairtrade certified. And I LOVE their chocolate! Especially the one with Fleur de Sel. 🍫🤤Sadly I couldn't visit the factory myself despite staying in Koforidua (neighbor city of _Suhum_ where the factory is) Greetings to your people! I miss your country every day.

Do you send half your pay back to your family? So they don't have to send children to work?

@@frostyfilmwatcher2148 You can buy a Tesla. But that is about it.

I'm in NZ, saw this segment and I've ordered about $100 (US) of the stuff... It better be good!!! But if it's not, at least I know I'm contributing, in a tiny way, to a better outcome for these awesome farmers 😊

​@@frankiefavero1666The only downside to Tony's is that it basically ruins cheap chocolate for you. You'll impulse-buy a Hershey Bar then realize it has the taste and texture of a scented candle.

@@joshua.harazin lol for sure! But in all fairness, I already think Hershey's tastes like a scented candle haha. I live in New Zealand and the ONLY chocolate I eat is Whittaker's a high quality local brand that also believes in fairness and sustainability, plus it's awesome chocolate and, just like Tony's even their milk chocolate is 33% cocoa :)

As an other Dutch person I can confirm it's really good and comes in many flavours and also doesn't use plastic packaging. (It comes in paper and aluminium foil)

@@joshua.harazin, I would not even call Hershey's chocolate. I used to live in America and hated anything chocolate because of the taste. I moved to Europe and realized what good chocolate actually tastes like.

Oh my goodness the brownie flavor was so fucking good...

I mean, it's not really a cute inspiring story that you seem to think it is. Just another horrific portrayal of greed and cynicism.

Thats horrible....

@@weareallbornmad410 Ben and Jerry's themselves are on the side of the good here, and always have been so it's not greed from them. What it is is cynicism over a supply chain that has been built using exploited labour, built from colonialism onwards and which is based around keeping the prices of what is basically a luxury product, not a commodity, at subsistence level. I am glad that Ben and Jerry's were wrong on this.

😂😂🤣😂🤣

20:00 Yeah, he certainly looks like he was 21 back in preschool.

Underrated comment 😂

Oh man I needed that laugh after watching that!

😂🤣😂🤣

Thank you for this comment! I purchase Divine chocolate regularly and knew they were fair trade but did not know the other info you stated. I'm very impressed and will continue to purchase Divine! I love their 85% bar.

as an African i know more money will lead to corruption, asassinations, nepotism and looting of funds meant for the farmers by african leaders interested in these projects.

@@Amy-Bo-Bamy Same!

You must be lacking in long term thinking to be brought to tears by a British import with a case of heavy profanity. His solution to everything is more government regulation, as if the government isn't already in bed with the corporation to begin with.

​@@funveeable you must be lacking in any kind of thinking, if you couldn't anticipate that someone like me would follow up on your claim by asking what your solution would be. If you think that "don't allow slave labor in your product chain" is government overregulation, you are simply an a**hole. 🤷 These companies could prevent any regulation by acting in their own. They had decades to do so. Yet here we are ...

since you're in ghana - I was wondering how the chocolate situation is - and what can be done about it?

We have it in Scotland, and it's the best chocolate I've ever tasted.

Tony's is big in the UK too, and I've even seen it in American grocery stores. It's also amazing chocolate, and tastes even better knowing that you are not eating the fruits of exploitation.

It's available in Germany now too and I couldn't be happier.

It's come over to the UK so i got to try it and I'm now addicted to the stuff. It's awesome chocolate and it's good to be helping out even a little.

I've never seen it in Australia but I'd love to try it!

Just goes to show how sick the writers are and Oliver just goes along with whatever they tell him to say. Whether its animal sex jokes or children trafficking John loves all of it and will say it with a smile.

Yep. Keeping people alive and healthy just doesn’t turn millionaires into billionaires very effectively, and of course that’s the most important thing… 😒

@qwertpoo1 Dude, I agree with his conclusion and my own statement. These problems are real and the children are suffering. And the reason that's happening, is that it's profitable.

@@misspatvandriverlady7555 Mathew Perry is died ☹️

​@@seyioyetadeshutup, bot

The price isn't even THAT much more than water-stealing Nestle. And they are SO GOOD. I love finding them,.

I wasn't much a fan of their taste, and I'm just a 100 dollars a month away from poverty myself, and Tony's chocolate isn't the cheapest, but I honestly can't really keep buying cheap chocolate now that I know this. I will just adjust my taste. I did the same with sugar and vegetables to end a sugar addiction and I really like and enjoy vegetables now. My brain now recognizes it as something that feeds me without f'ing over my brains. I mean, if the cost is an issue, I will just eat less chocolate and enjoy it more when I eat it. Besides, Halloween isn't just chocolate. It's also popcorn and nacho's with cheese and all kinds of tasty crap! :D And lots of blood and gore and scary movies and dressing up as a scary monster! Happy Halloween! 👻🫁🦵🧛🧟‍♂🕷🕸👽😈

@@stylis666 Ending sugar addiction is HARD. I know; I did it too. Good for you! Happy Halloween back at ya!

I tried it for the first time this year as well and Tony's legitimately slaps.

omg i didnt know thie history of this. they have tonys at my works snack bar. great chocolate and now i feel better about it too

Warner Bros almost certainly had a hand in cutting the ones that they most probably wrote.

this must be the best recommendation for a chocolate brand. From a Belg who was closely seeped in big chocolate brands.

There's a very simple fix to this: invest money in the local economies where chocolate production occurs to allow chocolate farmers to create a distribution network and collectivize their sales of their crops. This is what grain farmers do in the United States in order to get the best price.

I have found that chocolate produced using slave labor is 23% tastier 🤤

​@@brandonchutt312👎nobody likes you.👽

@@brandonchutt312You’ve never tried Tony’s Chocolonely, that’s for sure! They have some quirky flavors but some are mind blowing in a good way!

@@RustOnWheels the one with the toffee bits…makes my mouth water just thinking about it. Genuinely way tastier than a Hershey’s bar

considering the gigantic WALL of chocolate in EVERY gas station and grocery store yeah we could easily do with less...

Or maybe, just maybe, they could have slightly reduced profits and not make their consumables more expensive because any consumable (coffee, food, drugs) being expensive or more expensive per serving pretty directly makes it not an option for most and we shouldn't be asking regular people to make sacrifice after sacrifice. Ugh, I hate regressive, reductionistic either/or thinking. Ask for more, folks. Really. Aim at the top, ever, instead of the bottom.

It's called "make it up on volume" too. No need to raise prices.

Yes, we could do with less chocolate - but the CEO's and shareholders of these companies could definitely also do with a few hundred million less a year. Despite the price of things like chocolate or coffee being said to be falsely deflated due to companies paying workers unlivable wages, the price is also simultaneously falsely inflated because the companies want to make the greatest profit they can.

​@@kitcoffey7194What an intricate way of saying that you prefer to move the responsibility from yourself to the mythical "company executives". Surely allows to eat that sweet chocolate without personal guilt...

Ah, country of freedom strikes again :D

Ah, classic school systems. I appreciate that you're aware of how widespread that kind of story is lol.

I love when anyone in America that owns a cellphone, claims to be oppressed...

Ours years of establishing banana republic’s have ruined countries and lives

To be fair, valuing human life, especially the lives of people in other countries or people in poverty, IS liberal propaganda.

The story of any 3rd world countries, even most developing countries are also like this, corruption everywhere, and corrupt officials, police, companies are flexing their wealth to the people they "steal" from.

😔

All the aid gets squandered like this...

@RAYDEEY17. Have the farmers given consideration to purchasing refrigeration equipment, refining & packaging the produce themselves? I would think long & hard about going outside the box entirely in any matters where slavery-which so many in the US-concept are rapid-fire quick to proclaim “doesn’t exist anymore,” is a “matter of corruption,” is not “in” the USA (but obviously is, as to the profits), etc., etc.-is identifiably identical with identical profiteers of colonial eras reaping identical rewards. Perhaps, the problem is really who is buying & selling the chocolate, as usual, as is true globally. Taiwan or Kenya, or Cuba or any other people might offer better terms, provide expertise & shipping, & even better educate & equip the farmers on finer-processing their products themselves, with the right amount of leverage, applied with precision & with intelligence. If small, significant changes were handled quickly, quietly, & without squabbles for governors to “intervene” over & settle (resulting in needless violence, to be sure), & about 1-2 years’ carefully detailed & outlined planning, it would be only fitting & just for all of these hostile entities & commissions to be simply sent packing & cut-out altogether, with absolutely nothing to say, even afterward. I don’t suggest “sneaking,” just increments of shifts out of co-dependent bartering with Crackheads & Addicts to slavery. Slavery & human trafficking don’t “go away” as a rule. They just morph into more subtle forms of deceit, even after many literally bloody battles & crafty legal wrangling bring about some new “same old.” That’s partly how they’ve lasted 600 years. The other, hidden part keeping them afloat is “consenting parties,” always eager to take their own slice in the profit-sharing, then crying & hand-wringing & grinning, as required-all the way to the bank as they tell lie-after-lie-after-lie with a straight face, eye-to-eye with their hostages. I’m an advocate for abolishing slavery in all forms, though I’m a mere individual. I believe in the Ghanaian/Ivory Coastal people’s genius in business, however. I suggest reaching out-& well AWAY from these dirty, crooked “buyers,” & their owner/colonizer clients-& looking Eastward & to South American-concepts, even Caribbean-concepts for better conditions for farming chocolate. These shifty con-artists in the USA-concept have already had a very long winning-streak run-in all Areas of Activity. No legislative policy known has ever “forced” them to stop subjugating ANYONE Nonwhite-ever. No Religion has, either. They only ever practice one: Global Systemic Injustice against Nonwhite people, that they can PROVE by their own data, has successfully & most profitably been in actual practice-not ceremony, ritual, rhetoric- over all others since 1492, at least, since the Spanish had an empire!! Also richer from chocolate!! Give the farmers whatever constructive help you can offer that’s better. But plant a seedling of thoughts from a fellow descendant of slaves: communicate what you can to other nation-state-concepts who have expertise in cocoa refinement & wrapping/packing/shipping. I’m not against commerce & trade & FAIR business practices. I’m anti-slavery, & for Justice, unequivocally. It’s 2024, & enough is never, ever enough, based on history, based on Jim Crow version 3.0, based on CRT, & based on logic. Let the farmers follow Logic & reason in order to free themselves to whatever extent is possible without causing themselves greater problems. But “shopping-around” is a right every farmer’s market enjoys, even slave markets.. 🕯⚖️🕯⚖️🌸🕯⚖️🕯⚖️

That's why we must #OccupyJulorbiHouse

Some of it isnt even modern, its been like this for decades.

Have you tried going to your government to have them pass laws to protect coco farmers?

​@@lunchbox6576have you gone to your government about the ill treatment of workers in your country

⁠@@lunchbox6576trying to get your government to listen to you is nearly impossible in the us at this point so it’s basically impossible to get a government ranked so low on the corruption index to listen to you.

​@@lunchbox6576 Cameroons GDP is 45 bln $ Cargill revenue is 165 bln $ Guess who's gonna win if Cameroon decides to go against big corpo 😂 I would restate the question to you: have you decided to trully give up "child-labor" chocolate and educate your friends and family to also do it? It would make more difference than asking, a guy from Cameroon to talk to their government.

Chocolate is so amazing, I would not mind spending more to support farmers.

There have been so many expose/documentary shows over the years but the companies they expose are still here and the shows are gone because threats to pull ads. See : John Stewart's show with Apple just a couple weeks ago

Thanks!

It's a great series with lots of disturbing food stories.

The name of the program is a pun on the former Dutch FDA, which was Keuringsdienst van Waren, now NVWA.

@@esmay3612 Bring it on we need to know!

Sadly, Tom Harkin wrote the Americans with Disabilities Act too- yet another football yanked out from under him. In the case of the ADA, it happened after he retired, and his fellow Iowan, Chuck Grassley, played the role of Lucy.

i wish they sold tony's near me, its all i would buy

​@@gristen Talk to the manager--he/she may be able to order it in for you (and others)....

They sell it in Hungary too but it is priced higher than luxury chocolate (4x higher than normal chocolate) , so sadly unaffordable to the public

@@turkizno Chocolate must be priced differently in Hungary then. In Sweden Tonys is approximately a little less than 4x the price of regular chocolate, putting them a little above the fancy-ish chocolates. *I still could afford to buy them on my salary as a cleaning lady,* no problem at all despite having one of the lowest wages in the country. I probably wouldn't buy them if I was unemployed, but in that case I'd try to stay off chocolate anyway since it's a luxury expense. So, at least here they are easily affordable to the public. Maybe not if you buy several each week but that would be extremely unhealthy anyway. It's an absolutely okay price to pay for chocolate. Edit, actually, now that I think about it, Marabou should probably be the norm for chocolate prices in Sweden, since that's the big brand everyone here thinks of when you say chocolate. Tony's milk chocolate bar 180g is 41 SEK - 233:06 SEK/kg. Marabou milk chocolate 200g is 24:50 SEK - 122:50 SEK/kg. That means the Tony's chocolate is less than twice as expensive as normal chocolate, a far cry from 4x. Even if you look at the stores own brand of the cheapest and lowest quality chocolate Tonys is still less than 3x more expensive. Now I'm *really* curious what kind of chocolate prices you've got in Hungary.

Too bad they are so high in sugar. I buy Blue Stripe. Filled with nutrients and good for you!

I think that’s actually pretty central to the story!

In the west, corruption is called lobbying.

Save for historical context, that pretty much is the story. Fix that, and the rest of it fixes itself.

Get rid of super pacs.

Lobbying is just straight up legal bribery

Ugh I tried the Ben and Jerry’s tony chocolate bar and spat it out. I love Tony’s but not that one

​@@twistedspike69it comes the other way around too, as a ben jerry icecream, its great

I love Tony’s chocolate! I’ll definitely buy more now.

Not just in Netherlands, its huge in Belgium and Germany too

"Months after teaming up with Tony's Chocolonely to raise awareness for ending modern slavery and child labor in the chocolate industry, Ben and Jerry's suppliers were found to be employing illegal migrant children in early 2023 by The New York Times. Ben & Jerry's head of values-led sourcing, Cheryl Pinto, said that "if migrant children needed to work full time, it was preferable for them to have jobs at a well-monitored workplace"." - Wikipedia article for Ben & Jerry's

Me as a kindergarten teacher

Wow an actual instance where Christians are doing the good they always loudly proclaim to be doing. Good pastor!

I don't believe that for one second.. xtians love slaves.. the bible sanctions slavery and provides clear instructions on where to buy your slaves and how to treat them.. but.. the kicker is how that book suggests those humans owned by others should behave.. "slaves.. obey your masters.. even the cruel ones" yeah.. I'm calling 🐂💩 on your little evangelical kumbuya story..

Check out your local Unitarians or Quakers or maybe Presbyterians- there really are some religious organizations that focus on walking the walk re: “love thy fellow man”

May the Christian God RICHLY bless you and that whole congregation! Namaste.

Same here, Shroomyk

The humility of it feels right.

Eat another chunk of choccy and feel less depressed.

Well the world is depressing what do you expect. Literally everything you buy from clothes to electronics to hygiene products all come at the cost of great human suffering. Our society is a facade the world is not a nice place. We are intentionally surrounded by all this "stuff" to keep us apathetic and content. It's called the happiness bubble. So the government can do (almost) whatever it wants and no one cares cause rioting ain't worth it let's eat pizza and watch netflix instead. We'll only riot if the internet goes down

Let's get the lead out of chocolate as well.

Yeah annoying pieces, but its really good

Best tasting piece is the breaking chain circle.

And yet unfortunately they got kicked off of the slavery free chocolate list due to a cooperation with Barry Callebaut.

​@@ShikogoI'm pretty sure they explained the reason for that. Sorry, it was a while ago, so I don't remember the details.

Never realized there was any symbolism to the shapes!

The worst part is that big brands would probably only need to increase their prices by like 25%, while Tony’s has no choice but to be about twice as expensive because they have a lot of inefficiencies as a smaller company with less factories.

I like my chocolate like I like my women…

Probably because they are moral people and opt to not make insanely high wages for running the company to keep that price low. Corporate vampires be like "fine we'll pay more for the cost but you will pay more for the product to subsidize it because I'm not taking a pay cut!" This is why the ultra-wealthy need to stop being romanticized as being nearly demi-gods, because they aren't good people, they are only proficient at exploiting others and that is not a trait worth admiring.

Yeah but i doubt Tonys CEO etc all have their own private jet and huge yacht.

@@CorePathway small, ethical and with personality?

The chocolate of the children, by the children, for the children.

harsh but fair btw kinderchocolate is what the Germans call milk chocolate. No self respecting adult German would eat that stuff.

Eww. Jesus christ...

unfortunately for me growing up in canada it was literally the tastiest thing i could think of that existed. @@jv-lk7bc

Unfortunately it is not of the children, it is of the extremely rich @@Vitrunis

I definitely agree palm oil absolutely needs a video

If you have a information about that, please, share with me... I have a channel in spanish to teach chemistry, but no in this profile..

@ajs8721 - I bought a jar of palm oil to try before I knew about all the down sides, but then found out before I opened the jar. Now, it just sits on a shelf, mocking me.

Palm oil would make me cry, i don´t want to see Orangutans suffering.

Palm oil plantations are really efficient in terms of oil per acre. If farmers were growing some other crop on former rainforest land, it would in some sense be worse. So I'd say the problem is a lack of environmental regulation in places like Indonesia, and rural poverty that incentivizes burning rainforests for farming. Not market demand for palm oil.

Love me some Tony Chocoloney

Had not heard of them, but it sounds like an uphill task for a small company. I'm not really much into choc but coffee has a lot of the same problems, and really disappointed regarding those labels like Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance that cover both, and seem less meaningful when delve a bit deeper into them. There are similar labels or certifications in play for so much products like fish etc that are completely meaningless but try to make consumer feel better.

Their chocolate bars also fuck so while they’re pricey, they’re definitely worth it!

yes, there are more small companies (roasteries) in coffee with a similar ambition @@benwu7980

THANK YOU. (from a Dutchie living in Canada).😍 I'm a consumer convinced that consumers have the power to change anything bad. Just let the faulty companies know you won't put up with their practices by NOT BUYING THEIR STUFF.

Been buying Tony's for years

Ghana

​@@veggigoddesssame 👌🏼

@@elliotbrent thanks I'll fix my typo

I’ve been seeing it on the shelves for a few years but didn’t know what it was about. I’ll definitely be buying this brand next time I need some chocolate!

I go to the Netherlands once a year to visit family. I thought from first glance that it's some Hershey knockoff but when I got one, I realized that it's far too good to be a knockoff

Tony’s-PLEASE EXPORT to US OR COACH OTHERS TO FOLLOW YOUR SUCCESS FORMULA.

what is your favorite kind of Tony's?

They already sell in the US. I saw a multipack of 6 flavors in California at Target .

They sell them in Germany, too, but I find them waaay to sweet, so I just buy the other fair trade chocolates there are.

As I was watching the video, I immediately realized there was probably some landleech taking a portion, if not most, of the income these farmers earn.

@thecyborgian Remarkably (tho' predictably) mirrors share cropping, the American south's slavery 2.0 of more than a hundred years, the landless wed to the same land and living in the same tumble-down "quarters" (row of shacks) occupied by their ancestors, visible along any highway, right up into the 70s. So Britain isn't skimming the profits any more in Ghana but can you say that colonialism has been thrown off? These guys should be "truck" farming a variety of foods for their own family and for regional markets, not cashcropping a thing they can't eat on bwana's land for a world market that is incentivized to keep them poor. Same with all colonial legacy cash crops and land ownership patterns. Sigh o well.

And this is one of many reasons why unions are stupid and should be banned.

@@MegaLokopo and that is by far the most ignorant thing ive seen on youtube comments all year. congratulations scab scum!

@@sue-o8245 Excellent comment, although sharecropping largely died off around the 40s, not due to any moral outrage, but because of automation.

While mexican cocoa can indeed be great, the chocolates were always terrible, some companies have been selling "organic, traditional" chocolates while still not understanding the importance of actual taste. That's due in part because mexicans have a taste for spicy things way more than sweet foods. - I write this as a chocolate addict.

…meaning that NAFTA helped fix this issue?

@@senzen2692you’re not addicted to chocolate, you are addicted to sugar and palm oil! 🤡

We're not supposed to admit that there are good reasons for Mexicans to cross the border into the US and the good reasons are very often the actions of predatory US corporations.

What happened to the market value of the MesoAmerican corn crop, and therefore the farm economy as a whole, was even more direct, rapid, and dramatic, since the US so heavily uses tax dollars to subsidize its corn growers.

I was surprised too. But why, if Tony Chocolonely is a Dutch brand, are there no Tony Chocolonely sprinkles??

@@marjabeverwijk5630 Hah, great question. I would love the dark milk chocolate in sprinkles.

I used to make it a point on vacation in the Netherlands to stock up on Tony's (only recently appeared on German store shelves)

For as far as I know, Tony is a reference to Teun (van der Keuken). Which is is the person interviewing the Nestle dude on the phone.

Yeah, I'll be switching from Milka and the REWE store brand to Tony's on my next grocery tour.

I’d try it and I’m not a huge chocolate fan

Not the biggest fan of chocolate either and Hershey’s is pretty disgusting to me. If I ever buy anything with chocolate then I’ll try Tony’s.

I've never heard of it. I don't believe it's available in the US, unfortunately?

@@gracematterit is available! Typically in health food stores or co-ops!

@@wonpilspiano I mean, Hershey's *is* pretty disgusting. I tried it once out of curiosity and if I didn't know about the butirric acid thing I would have thought it was gone rancid...

They recently also started selling in austria, and I really liked it. Knowing that we as consumers can do something to help by buying a certain way is good. It's kinda sad tho that we need to research that much about all the "sustainable - fairtrade - etc" - seals that are floating around, instead of being able to trust them.

I love Tony’s, but they should make more vegan varieties. Im in Aruba, always excited to see the Dutch on the forefront of awesomeness initiatives.

@@pldcanfly You can’t do anything about the problem by buying your way out of it.

​@@scoobertmcruppert2915 But you absolutely can. Consumers have great power, and they should use that power.

Where can I find it in NYC?

I rather support 'Fairafric' which runs the only chocolate factory of Ghana which keeps the whole processing line & revenue in the country. It's also organic & fairtrade. Sadly I couldn't visit the factory myself despite staying in Koforidua (neighbor city of _Suhum_ where the factory is)

I only can find one variety in the USA, but its fantastic!

That's great! wish we had it in South Africa

Well tony Chocolonely is sold and no longer owner by Teun van de keuken...and has become a bit of a sham...

@@cjboyoit’s at Whole Foods. Lots of flavors!

SCREW NESTLE. SCREW THESE COMPANIES. YOU SHOULD GET THE MONEY, DUDE. YOU DO THE WORK. Not a ceo, not a single executive. Maybe the chocolaters. Maybe. But like. YOU do the work. YOU are the one busting your ass. Hell. If I wasn't just some broke idiot in the first world, I'd pay you for the cocoa directly and figure out how to make my OWN damn chocolate. Like. F*ck these guys. Man. I need to grow a backbone cause these companies rule my life too and I let them! Just cause they can! Cause I'm one person and I like snacks. But like. F*ck these guys. YOOOOOU SHOULD SEE THE MONEY! YOOOOOOU

You just produce the raw material. It’s normal you don’t get proceeds of the end product…

​@@CryptocurrencyInsider I think you need to watch this episode again, friend. Maybe it is the norm for people to be so underpaid that they can only survive by making their children work, while the companies who benefit from their labour are making enormous profits. But if that is the case, then this norm MUST change. It is more important for cocoa farmers to have enough money to put food on the table and send their kids to school than for Nestle's shareholders to get a load of extra money. Lots of terrible things are normal. It is up to you, and me, and all of us to change our world for the better.

Move out of there. Raising the price of Chocolate so Ugandan people can get paid more. Never heard something more ridiculous in my life. It's a competitive market and more countries are growing cocoa, if it's not cheap there, they will find out where it grows cheap. That's like me saying I want to pay more for Chinese goods because of the labor practices of China.

@@CryptocurrencyInsider It takes a lot of arrogance (and probably a heavy dose of white privilege) to condescend to someone about their own experiences and tell them they don't deserve to be fairly compensated. And anyone who's user name advertises fucking crypto has no business talking about anything economic. Reported.

@chielversteeg8794 - Glad to see your comment. However, there are many comments here that say how the founder of your company has quit because of the backsliding by the company that bought you out and the reduction in standards. I was happy to see the video's positive statements for Tony's, but then very unhappy to read that is no longer as upstanding as it was initially. ---------- Can you comment on the true state of your company?

Mr Beast also sells chocolate Feastables - wonder if he's aware of child labor exploitation and low paying work in this industry 🍫

@@MossyMozart It's more nuanced than this. Teun van de Keuken, who initially started the brand kind of lost faith in the cause. The cited reasons are twofold: first, in all of the years Tony's has been active, circumstances for cocoa farmers in general basically only got worse and didn't improve. He felt the impact Tony's Chocolonely had was negligible. Secondly, he also felt that at some point the brand put more effort into its own marketing than the goal of producing honest, slave-free chocolate. I personally think, and this admittedly is somewhat speculative, that at some point Tony's hit its maximum potential as a world-changing brand. Any additional effort beyond that point wouldn't make much of a difference. Though the brand still had success through its image of being a responsible chocolate producer, they pushed their promotion into directions other than just that. Over here in the Netherlands they have mother's day themed bars, Christmas themed bars, all sorts of custom flavor options, you can design your own packaging, etcetera. All stuff that has nothing to do with being a responsible slave-free chocolate producer, does little to send out that message and, in fact, just dilutes the whole message they should be sending out. I think that the above is the reason why Teun van de Keuken left Tony's Chocolonely. Maybe he's just disillusioned. Whatever the case, I'm pretty sure Tony's Chocolonely is still actively working to bring responsible chocolate to various markets. But it's grown well beyond that goal and so effort is directed into directions other than that initial goal which, arguably, means they're not realizing their full potential towards achieving 100% slave-free chocolate.

I thought the US and some other countries aren’t supposed /can’t buy Cacao from Ivory Coast because of the human rights violations?

@@ts29677 you're probably thinking of the Dodd-Frank act, which contains a section about conflict minerals such as gold and tungsten originating from Congo and the countries surrounding it. An unfortunate side-effect of that is that companies who sourced minerals from those countries opted to stop business there entirely instead of setting up controlled supply chains, resulting in even worse income circumstances for the people working in the mines in those countries.

And kudos to you for the courage to look in the face of our collective horror. In all fairness, those governments are a shit-show also; I grew up in Ghana. It doesn't take much to bribe those people and have them look the other way. Not excusing the big multi-nationals of course.

All their prodcuts are good, and not more expensive than chocolate of similar quality.

Chocolonely affiliated products are allmost exclusivly the only one I buy.

John Oliver's life theme song "Bad boys bad boys What you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for you?" 😂😂😂

We tried the B&J bars and they were not as good as the rest of the Tony's lineup. The Tony's ice cream is divine though

Where can I get this?!

He can't, there's NO way!

2 words: modern slavery

not so modern, truthful bot@@erin1569

Let's be honest everyone will still eat chocolate after this including john Oliver 😂 it reminds me of when he exposed the disgusting fifa football federation and ended it with "Oh don't get it confused. I'm still so excited about the world cup" 😂😂😂

@@erin1569 it's pretty old school style slavery. I would say the US companies paying people so little that most live paycheck to paycheck is modern slavery... what they're doing in Africa is just old school traditional slavery.

Nestlé are quite evil. I agree. When I was in university we banned their products from the students union shop and I think they are still banned 25 years later. At the time it was for aggressive marketing of breast milk substitute formula products. It was interesting to see their CEO talking about water as a commodity and not giving access to those who cannot pay for it. They're buying up water companies at a dramatic rate

Tony's is awesome! I really hope that they stick to their claims and don't turn on us once they are popular enough.

We still have few places that carry Tony’s but I buy them whenever I see them🤎

Plot twist: you are Tony.

I dont buy Nestle at they are really bad

While you eat the chocolate, read the informative wrapper!

That's why their chocolate is in uneven pieces, to show the inequality :)

I just wish my local store had more than "strange flavor" and "super strange flavor".

It is on the wrapping of the bar...

@@Dutchienl2006 oh please forgive me for not inspecting a product I didn't plan to buy. If it helps my anxiety already doesn't let me stand in the Pizza aisle for more than a minute, you can imagine how it is in the Candy aisle

Where can it be bought?

​@odamaeforever XVS and I'm starting to see it at Walmart. Be prepared for $5/bar (giant bar tho)

I'd prefer Milka

Milka is super overrated imo. As a kid I was fascinated by their advertising which made it look like the purest most delicious chocolate and when I had it I was very disappointed

Wasn’t there a kid working in the video from Tony’s???

Congratulations and I hope you keep up the fight, you are worth it! (Also, have you tried Lindt?) 😉

Their "Salted caramel" or "Prezel and Toffee" are my go-to for a chocolate treat. I didn't know the company at all until they started selling them in Rewe here in Germany. And if they get a mention on John Oliver without any "but", you can be confident that they are doing it right.

I tried one a while back from Brazil. I think it was called 1819 (or something like that). It was a banana-chocolate. Best thing I've ever had. Haven't been able to find it anywhere.

@@colintimp1372apparently it’s called the Ever After bar and was limited edition thing. I didn’t even know they had limited edition bars…but now I do!! Thanks !!!!

Dark, bitter cacao-rich chocolate helped me quit smoking. Just a small piece after supper to get the happy hormons without nicotine. Tony's is heaven.

But let's raise consumer prices instead of actual laws or making the companies have even slightly less profits, sounds legit /sarcasm

I guess you shoulda written a better paper lol!

Their interview techniqie became a gimmick .. but its great

How have I never heard of this? Gotta look it up now

It’s very much in the same genre as John Oliver - and leads neatly into Tony Chocolonely.

It's a great example of how investigative journalism can make good television.

To be fair… The boy clearly isn’t 25, but he is probably about 16 which is a normal age in the US to get a job.

Sure, but the original founder did stop working with them because he felt they were not putting enough effort into it. According to him, the priority was no longer the fairness and more the sales.

@@Widdekuu91 To be fair like, there's only so much you can do to reach 'fairness,' and at that point it becomes about selling more product, which in turn means hiring more people to make product, which means more people you can be fair to. The humanitarian initiative tapering off isn't really the fault of the company. It just sounds like this guy was only interested in the activist cause and didn't care about the day to day reality of running a business, that's all.

I want to begin buying Tony's Chocolate and want to invite others to do as well. Perhaps a boycott of Hershey and other big chocolate companies might shake the markets up and change it

There was quite an interesting lawsuit surrounding Tony's. Another chocolate company sued then for lying about the fact that their chocolate was slave free. While it indeed seemed at the time that Tony's lied they still won the lawsuit based on the fact they had a national recognised seal which requires the chocolate to be slave free. So basically they lied about it being slave free, got the seal, then got sued because they lied and then they won because of the seal they obtained through lying. But iirc right now they're actually buying slave free cocoa. So all that ends well is well ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

some things, like chocolate SHOULD NOT be super cheap. The human toil to get it to the consumer is massive. Pay the ppl!

Yes, the mulled wine of Tony's is amazing!

So that's why it's so damn expensive.

Tonys is very very good, but there's better out there like Dolfin or Rausch

Blue Stripe dark chocolate cacao bars are the best. They’re actually filled with nutrients and good for you. I think Tony’s chocolate is a lot of sugar. It’s just basically chocolate candy.

@@HH-gv8mx Buddy you're saying it yourself. It's a "cocoa bar", not chocolate, and we are talking about chocolate. Like yeah, maybe we should eat less chocolate and more other stuff, but you can't jump into a conversation about people's favourite action movies and go "actually the best action movie is Little Women, it doesn't have any of the loud shooting or violence".

For the record I think Little Women (2019) is a masterpiece and I have watched and enjoyed it many times, but sometimes you want to get comfy, put on Prey, and watch a nasty hot alien man decimate French colonists faces for 90 minutes

Yup. Him and his team's format is amazingly legendary. It always ends on some "how to solve it" or "how it's being addressed but it needs a bit more and here is you need to do"

And nothing changes except we the audience get an ego boost and feel better about ourselves compared to our ignorant peers…it’s a great business model.

I agree completely with this caveat: if you binge watch these episodes, it's hard to imagine a future that's not a complete, unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

I bought a bar a while back and it was delicious. I then researched and found out more about Tony's. Now it's all I buy.* I can't guarantee it is 100% of what I eat, but you have to be realistic.

I LOVE Tony's! I still remember the first time I saw them in a store--the wrapper was so bright and goofy I almost passed on it. I'm pretty sure it was the sea salt caramel bar. It's only a slight exaggeration to say it changed my life. 😅 But it was when I learned the story behind Tony's that I really fell in love. Now it's one of my favourite gifts to give--everyone in my family gets a birthday Tony's bar. ❤️ Hoping and praying more chocolate companies follow suit and stop exploiting their workers. 😔

Ditto. I did a lot of homework to become an educated consumer and Tony’s was at or near the top. 2 squares from a dark chocolate almond sea salt bar is a vital part of my daily regimen in my ongoing battle with ADHD and depression.

I’ve never heard of Tony’s chocolate and now need some!

Tony's Chocolonely recently came out with new flavors meant to imitate Twix and Ferrero Rocher while demonstrating that making ethical and tasty chocolate is possible. 🥰 (Unofficial/non-paid ambassador of Tony's here 😄)

I never heard od McKinsey before, that's why I apreciate John Oliver so much, he and his teams dig up stuff everyone should know.