Vår ambition är att arbeta med produkter som framställts på bästa sätt. Några av dem är märkta som "Organiska", "EquiTrade" eller "FairTrade", andra produkter är det inte. Det viktiga är inte märkningen utan villkoren för hur den har framställts. Följande text beskriver problematiken mer ingående.

Fair Trade

Hearing, from time to time, from you about your socioeconomic concerns, we are reminded how sad but true it is that one bad apple ruins the barrel. So it is in our industry. As a society we have come to believe almost instantly, what we read and hear in the media, which is sometimes content to take the sketchiest information and with it, accuse, charge, prosecute, convict and execute without filter, clarification, expansion, scrutiny or perspective on the matter.
Fair Trade certification is a flawed process that we do not engage in because it is impractical for us and because, as consumers just like you, we are comfortable with the standards practiced in the Venezuelan cacao industry – in a country about the size of Texas where it would be difficult for the industry to get away with what we “hear” goes on in Africa, even if we were so inclined, which we are not.
Cacao is a culture that revolves around small family farms (say 5 acres), not unlike farms in your country in years past and to this day, where children and families naturally, necessarily and expectedly help with work before and after school, summers and so on. Such is the case on Venezuelan cacao plots of land.

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