The crunchy mint chocolate experience you’ve been waiting for—an ideal balance of rich, dark chocolate and light, refreshing mint. You’ll love the delicate mint crunch in this bar, which provides a wonderful compliment to the creamy, deep chocolate. This bar is made with cocoa from the farmer cooperatives CONACADO, in the Dominican Republic, and CACVRA, in Peru, and the fairly traded organic sugar comes from cooperatives in Paraguay and Costa Rica. Gluten-free. May contain traces of nuts and milk. 67% cocoa 3.5 oz. per bar Ingredients: *Organic cocoa liquor, *Syramena™ Organic Raw Cane Sugar, *Organic cocoa butter, *Sucanat™ Organic unrefined whole cane sugar, peppermint crisps (*Organic cane sugar, Organic peppermint oil), Organic ground vanilla beans. May contain traces of milk, peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios & pecans. Cocoa 67% min. (*Fair Trade Certified™)
Equal Exchange, founded in 1986, is the oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade company in the US. Their products, ranging from coffee to chocolate to nuts are produced by democratically run farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia and total products from over 30 farmer cooperatives in 18 countries.
Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
Equal Exchange is a worker owned cooperative from farm to office and maintains a top-to-bottom pay ratio of 4-to-1. For comparision consider that the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 301-to-1 in 2003 (Source: United for a Fair Economy.) The corporate top-to-bottom ratio would necessarily be even higher.
The Fair Trade premium helped create Training programs for women in Guatemala to further education and equality, an ecotourism project in Nicaragua to generate additional income while educating consumers first hand about Fair trade, and new classrooms, supplies and teachers in El Salvador.
Read more about Equal Exchange at http://www.equalexchange.com.
