Sounds like the power of money. Can quickly change people with the best of intentions.

I love it. Actually I recently bought some in January. I saw it was on sale at the market. I got some.

Where can you find that statement from the founder?

First time I had it was in Amsterdam about 5 years ago. Tastes good. The reason it changed it was after the lawsuit from big corporations....

Yeah after they announced they aren't 100% slavery free I completely lost interest. Such a shame because the chocolate tasted good and actually 'felt' good to eat before that. Seems like the biggest marketing gimmick.

Not just disregard; wilful destruction.

mmmmmm

I hated how durin California’s severe droughts where residents had all sorts of water restrictions, Nestle kept draining millions of gallons of water in the state for its bottled water production. The state said it had no legal right to the water.

God loves you! John 3:16✝️

Its typical behaviour. Agree with stuff like that to use as "look at this, we are good"

The hurdles are there for a reason. The big corporations don't want ethical brands to be big. We live in a terrible world

But unfortunately the company was sold and now uses slavery. They repeat the origin story but never bring up facts about how well they pay workers for their cocoa. That's because the company has regressed. Capitalism at work

​@@ayushisharma162 The hurdles are there because when it comes to choosing between a "Better" brand we decry it isn't perfect. Marketing to people with high ethical standards is very difficult because they also tend to inform themselfs well and are willing to drop you if you do anything they don't like. While your competitors can be as evil as they want because their consumers don't care. This comment section is a good example. So many people who are opposed to buying Tony's simply because they aren't slave free or manufacture in africa. Now maybe these people are prepared to pay 10 euro per bar for that kind of ehtical standard. But a lot of people aren't so Tony's now has a choice. Cater to the extremes and lose the middle. Or cater to the middle and loose the extreme. Either way their consumer base get's smaller.

@Trainrhysand the w. African gov’t get their cut bc the farmers don’t have the education and the wages and equipment to make it sustainable. A machete some boots is labor intense with just getting paid by the pound. Around $1.50-$1.67usd a pound. USA farmers get paid way more than that!

You took away doing the right things is going to be more challenging? Idk sometimes it's easier.

marabou better

@@ugo7395 marabou and Cadbury are both owned by the multinational firm mondelez so the taste is the same or diluted. It is not authentic chocolate anymore. I suggest you try toney's and your taste buds will experience something exciting

Ehh, it’s marginally better than hersheys, but the flavors of single origin chocolate are worlds better

@@ugo7395ate that in Sweden all the time, it’s so good. Now that me and my ex broke up, I’ll miss the chocolate 🥹

@@ugo7395 marabou kvalitet suger jämfört med förr

There normal hershey bar sucks. But man if you ever try there hershey symphony milk chocolate bar. It is on ANOTHER LEVEL. I promise you. Its just as good as tonys,

Wrong

They RUINED Cadbury Milk Bars.

Hersheys isnt allowed to advertise as 'chocolate' in Australia as it doesnt meet the standard for cocoa butter content.

Hersheys tastes like sick smells. I mean, it's made with butyric acid which is literally the smell of vomit.

They're actually expanding their distribution quite a bit. I've had a few of these and they're great!

I first had the Ben & Jerrys version of Tonys Chocolonely and I loved it, never knew it was this deep in its conscious efforts,. very admirable 👏🏾

and if they sell more the core values will fade away untill only marketing is left

So Australian chocolate is trash like Tony's?

@@glorymanheretosleep bug off mate

This is the real secret - US chocolate is nowhere near as nice as European. Tony’s would do well even if each bar came with a picture of an enslaved child that had been forced to make it

I visited the US and enjoyed the Trader Joes chocolate slabs. Hersheys is the worst tasting chocolate that I have ever tried.

@@glorymanheretosleep American chocolate tastes like vomit, but of course with a fast food diet someone like you wouldnt know the difference between good and bad.

I mean it would have to.

Well the countries some of the pieces resemble aren't too big.... 😅

I thought it didn't make sense.. since he was in search for equality.. 😂

So you support child labor, thats wild😂

@@user-ck3by4zg3e sure thing troll... thats wild

You were very close to Belgium, best to go there for good chocolate.

​@@hansmemling2311 have been to Belgium and met plenty of locals who still enjoy Tony's as a cheaper option. Also not everyone want to spend that much on chocolate even though yes it is superior to any supermarket stuff.

this is big brand mate just with new colourful packaging

Ugh dutch 😒. .

Majority stake holders are now Belgians

Dont, tony chocolonely is now 85 procent unverified sourced cocoa...... aka slave chocolate......just dont......

Don't forget how they sold everyone bs stories for years

They are good 😊...

They're ok. Nothing to pine over. Just the new kid on the block is all

Their product is not only superior in taste but also in quality. They don't contain any palm oil, no plastic too. The most important and great thing about them is their cocoa is 100% free from child labor and slavery and they pay fair amounts to the farmers instead of bankrupting them like Hershey's and Nestle.

Yeah, I love the taste of their chocolate! And knowing that it's sourced responsibly is a big advantage on top of that 😄

It’s not that great. Tastes average.

I’ve never really understood why people like it so much. I think it tastes like cheap generic chocolate, which is a shame, as I’d like to support their agenda.

​@@Cazzakstania You can still support the agenda any time you're about to buy chocolate? Unless your need for certain tasting chocolate is more important. In which case you probably don't care about it much and don't need to even think about it.

Whoops! An LLC just formed!

I think they meant the scale. Don‘t think Tony intended it to be a multinational corporation.

No. The only items we see from Tony’s Chocolate in the bar form. They seem to have lost steam. A few years ago, they were everywhere. Now, not as many places.

Its corporate now, its 85 procent unverified sourced cocoa, aka slave chocolate.....its a greenwashing scam

They literally admit they use a slave labour company, so they can "grow their business globally" this company is a fraud

You can buy it in the U.S. as well.

It's their company they can do whatever fk they want

West africa doesnt have the industrial capacity. The few factories they have are already producing something else for another country or company and then exported.

Can’t trust blacks…

Exactly. You can't claim you're helping anyone if you don't even have processing and manufacturing in West Africa.

It sounds like they’re paying a lot better than the other manufacturers to me that sounds promising. Why would all of the profits go back to west Africa? Who would take care of the production, advertising, distribution, etc.. Making a chocolate bar company is more than just sourcing the cocoa. I would agree that allocating a small percentage of the company for profit sharing, donations to help out the community is warranted though (not sure if they are already doing this)

Not to mention, as they said in the video they are not profitable at the moment due to scaling

@@mtrajano973 Who would take care of the production, advertising, distribution, etc? I assume the West Africans. They would figure out how to do what they need to do and outsource the rest to partners of their own choosing. They would be in control of their destiny rather than relying on charity handouts. With this business model, nothing really has changed - the farmers still get only a very minuscule slice of the pie and other people take the giant share while also selling a feel-good story and appearing to be ethical at the expense of the little guy.

i don't believe they're claiming to help west africans. their battle was against child labor lol

Problem often are educate work force

If they could they would. However when you want to take on the industry that means selling in grocery strores. This mean massive production. The kind of scale you can't achieve when you are starting out. We are talking processing the massive amounts of milk, sugar, Cocoa with advanced machinery running 24/7 on a stable energy grid. It means the infrastructure to move everything, a predictable political climate and regional sability. Those things don't come over night. So you have two options. Produce there on a smaller scale. Every bar you sell will provide more human value. But you will sell less bars because you can't sell to the mass consumer. Or sell to the mass consumer. Start with a sligly better product and as you gain market share use the economy of scale to invest back into your production chain increasing the value you provide the people who make your products. However your value per bar soled will be lower. Tony's is going for the second one. And that means right now the can't yet produce in Africa.

Lack of infrastructure and corruption in government

That’s because the product we make out of it is not what the originating countries used the beans for.

Cocoa isn't indigenous to West Africa. It's purely a cash crop there. South and Central America have traditional recipes.

The comparison is more to do with highlighting unethical market practices committed by market leaders.

Is Hershy's comparable with Milka?

Hershys the chocolate that tastes like vomit to anyone who is used to eating proper chocolate.

Another fun fact: this is the reason you do t get invited to parties

Cocoa! How about cocoa, gold, diamonds, lumber, coltan, colbalt, salt, sugar, petroleum!! The list goes on and on..Imagine not knowing you’re in a race war 😒

they are being kept poor for that exact reason

@@krisb-travelYep, if things actually improved for South Africans, they’ll ask for ‘fair wages’ and Western slave companies don’t like that word.

Not possible, chocolate manufacturing requires a massive dairy industry and refrigeration something West African climate is suboptimal for.

They would need way more child slaves if they started manufacturing.

They been caught again, month ago😂

There's a lot of people in the world. You don't need to influence all of them. Just enough.

Hence why their approach is to pay the parents a living wage so their children don't need to help out their families. I'm from a very different cultural and socioeconomic background, so I respect that I might not fully grasp the complexity of this, but the thought of a child being so aware of their parent's poverty that they develop the wish to work seems utterly tragic to me. No family should be reliant on their kid's income. These companies must pay fair wages because children shouldn't have to "want to work" in the first place.

I wonder if anyone really understands how living wages work and how it's not enough for families. Fine, families don't starve. Kids go to school...and then they see someone (classmates or friends) having something they want but their parents only earn a living wage. It isnt even a smartphone. Its just a nicer pencil or a bag without holes. Or maybe they want a snack aside from their lunch but their parents are budgeting. What do they do? Do they steal or work? My dad just wanted a new pair of slippers so he worked at the market selling tomatoes and salt near where his mom sold fish and meat so he can have a new pair that he likes.

@@KaiayaRules unfortunately, that's not going to happen..if we see coco farmers in Ghana become middle class, then someone is actually doing this.

​@kishisetasama now you're just justifying greed. "He has something, why shouldn't I?" Get real. Not everyone is obsessed with the idea they need to have what others do.

Even in the west children help out on their family farm. It can get unhealthy, but it is also true that often the children want to.

Hersheys is trash

That's not hard to do. Explore the world of small batch craft chocolate, you'll be astounded.

@@RachMonPhoebs Yes - the problem is I don't see a lot of chocolates here from all over the world. It's really these countries --- US, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Switzerland, France, Amsterdam.

Yes, it was part of a (public) TV consumer programme, where they used the creation of a bar as storyline and scaffolding of the research. There was such demand that it became a business on its own.

134% relative to what ? I feel like this statement is misleading

You can't have more than 100% of something in something. And if something is even 100% lead, it means there is nothing else in it. Lead occurs at the point of origin when farmers aren't paid sustainable enough wages to reinvest in their farms and build proper drying sheds for their beans. Tony's has a way to go with helping farmers.

You can, you cant be this stupid. Lets say i have 1 dollar you have 3 dollar, thats more then 100% more😂 Now lets say there is 00.1% lead in my chockbar, and 0.1% i. your bar, thats 1000%, how can you be so stupid😂​@@RachMonPhoebs

Better than American chocolate, worse than European chocolate but it’s alright

Are the children going to school? If they don't then it's child labor.

This is what happens when they own the media, thus the narrative & so much more. If one were to Visit the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC it’s noted the Dutch transported over 500K native Africans to the americas. I digress. 🤐. Oh the irony

Isn't the slave labour well documented in the confectionery industry? I don't think I need to personally ask people there when the evidence is out in the public.

That's probably why when the dude asked to be put in jail they looked at him crazy 😂😂

WHAT?! Your attempt to conflate DEI within the context of this video & your comment is wild. Perhaps it's not considered child labor in the country of West Africa that you call home, but that no longer holds true for the entire region. There has been a change in labour relations in certain parts of West Africa which has led to an increase in child slave labour. There have been a series of documentaries and pieces of investigative journalism dating back as as early as 2000 about this issue. Those interviews have been with the indigenous people working on the cocoa farms. So are you arguing that the multitude of indigenous people who have provided first hand accounts about the work being child labour are misinformed? Are you alleging that somehow they misunderstand their own culture? What's insulting is you disregarding the lived reality of some of your fellow West Africans who considered it child labour. One example is the eight children who are now adults that have filed a lawsuit alleging that they were used as slave labour on cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast. According to you, it's not child labor though. & Ironically, that's the same thing the European Cocoa Association said back in 2000. Until they could no longer make the claim due to the overwhelming amount of evidence that said otherwise. That's what led to Mars, Hershey, Nestle and other chocolate producers signing the “Harkin Engel Protocol,” in 2001. It was suppose to provide a time-bound process for eliminating the use of child labor in cocoa growing and harvesting. CBS literally just did a report in November of 2023 about how the Candy company Mars still uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana. It's child labor no matter how you try to spin it.

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Shut up

That could be said of any product that includes processed sugar since it is made with bone char.

what an irrelevant comment to make on video about HUMAN SLAVERY. Animal exploitation is everywhere, to make a snide comment about Tony's not being 100% ethical because of dairy farming is to hold it to an impossible standard when it is clearly driving enormous change in an industry reliant on SLAVE LABOR.