He packaged the sweet chocolates in lovely heart-shaped boxes adorned with Cupids and rosebuds, and marketed them around Valentine’s Day.
Wikimedia Commons. Artist: Annibale Carracci . The photo is in the book “Le storie di Romolo e Remo di Ludovico Agostino e Annibale Carracci in Palazzo Magnani a Bologna” of Andrea Emiliani .first popularized Valentine’s Day as a time to celebrate love, musing “every bird cometh to choose his mate” on “Seynt Valentynes day.” Over the next four centuries, the tradition of Valentine’s Day love letters blossomed.
Yet, despite making pledges over twenty years, Hershey, Mars and Nestlé and other large chocolate companies have consistently missed deadlines to uproot child labor from their cocoa supply chains. As a result, a chocolate bar bought in the United States is likely the product of systems can not replace tropical forests that have already been cut down. But they can be established on older cocoa plantations where productivity has declined over time. If cocoa agroforestry systems can maintain their productivity, they can help farmers avoid cutting down the remaining forests in Ivory Coast, Ghana, and other cocoa producing countries.To halt child labor, chocolate companies first need to trace where their cocoa is coming from.
“The chocolate industry is not sustainable because the business model is broken. Until the fundamental business model is challenged, nothing will change."
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