[Avodah] Chocolate Production

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:16:50PM +0000, Prof. L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> Please see
> https://oukosher.org/content/uploads/2020/12/Daf-Hakashrus-Chanukah-2020.pdf
> for an article by the OU regarding this topic.

The OU does not raise questions of child slavery and the cruelty routinely
imposed on the slaves who pick our chocolate. And whether it's mutar to
support the industry, if our trade is so small as to have no measurable
effect so it isn't even mesayeia, etc...

-Micha

PS: There is chalav hacompanies Fair Trade chocolate coins. But I didn't
find pareve or CY.