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Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: Tony's Chocolonely launches special limited editions.

Corona or not, the Tony's Chocolonely-train keeps rolling. And thankfully so, because with the new Sweet Solution limited edition bars, Tony's draws attention to the rotten chocolate industry.

Bittersweet...
For twenty years, the chocolate industry has been making agreements to put an end to child labor and slavery. Last year, it became (again) clear that almost nothing has come of all those promises. Tony's thinks it's time for new action and launches today the new Sweet Solution-bars, not long after the publication of the NORC report; an American study that painfully shows that human rights are still being violated on a large scale in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

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In 2001, the largest chocolate companies supported the Harkin-Engel Protocol and promised to end illegal child labor and modern slavery in the chocolate chain. Almost twenty years later, little has changed, despite various initiatives from these companies. The abuses in the chocolate industry are enormous. Today, there are still 1.56 million children working on cocoa plantations in West Africa, and an estimated at least 30,000 people are victims of modern slavery. This again shows that voluntary initiatives are not enough. 

With these limited edition lookalike bars, Tony's wants to draw attention to modern slavery and illegal child labor in the chocolate industry and call for legislation that holds companies accountable for the abuses in their supply chain. If you agree, you can sign the petition here: https://tonyschocolonely.com/petition

Get such a bar
The new bars – wafer bars, nougat triangles, crunchy hazelnut rounds, and caramel biscuits – are, besides the lookalike wrappers, really clearly all Tony's. You can find them in the shelves of Albert Heijn, Marqt, online at Bijenkorf, and at Tony's own Super Stores in Amsterdam. The proceeds from Tony's Sweet Solution bars go to 100WEEKS, a foundation that supports women in Africa to escape poverty by directly transferring money to them and through financial training.