sometimes there is a girl that is so dog

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

Occupy got some good anarchy going, just over ten years back. They had structures and systems that allowed their little slice of society to thrive in the space they occupied. Most revolutions of the time did; Libya in both dealing with and post dealing with Gaddafi was a great example, including their walling off his supporters to keep them from attempting a coup. Egypt definitely had a good anarchist commune feeling going in Tahrir Square.

What do all of these have in common? Governments stepped in and stepped on them. Not because of the disturbance to the peace - because they were working. Organically. In all 3 of these cited situations, government agencies stepped in to break it down before too much attention was given to what they were managing. They needed it to go away, because it made them look unnecessary and, worse, unimportant.

And that's the history of these movements. South American and Asian nations getting the CIA treatment, or worse, getting the Kissinger treatment. The Paris Commune. The entire Arab Spring (did you never wonder? Why the world looked away? Why nobody supported them to realise their freedom? It's because they were doing it wrong - because they were doing it for themselves by themselves).

The big nations need to make these go away, and fast, because it teaches people there can be a society without them. That the Leviathan is made of people, rather than is one giant powerful person. They remember that society is made of people, not structures. That all this, this modern life and all its systems and structures, is made up. Unnatural. That, beneath it all...

We don't need them.

Very relevant indeed

so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love