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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | So Bob emails what do you say? |
0:02.0 | What's all the laughter for? |
0:08.0 | Is it because I'm using the plural of emails? |
0:10.0 | Yes, exactly. |
0:12.0 | Annual long-term middle-tier patron Raymond from the Netherlands, he wrote in and says, |
0:18.0 | good old middle-tier patron Raymond, says, dear Kirk and Bob, thank you for advertising Tony's chocolonely chocolate. |
0:27.0 | Tony's. |
0:28.0 | I was very surprised to hear about this brand on your podcast because I thought it only existed in the Netherlands. |
0:37.0 | There is actually an interesting story behind it that I just looked up this morning to distract myself from the overwhelming feelings of my childhood trauma. |
0:45.6 | Oh. Do you know the story of Tony's talk? We looked it up a little bit in a recent episode. |
0:51.2 | I know, I actually don't know. Yeah we yeah just the |
0:54.5 | mattering. Well Raymond tells a pretty good concise but interesting story here. |
1:01.1 | All right. Tony's Chocolonely was founded in 2005 by a famous Dutch journalist and consumer activists |
1:10.9 | by the name of Toon or Toin Van Du Kuykin or Tony in English. |
1:18.8 | He did so after he found out that child labor and modern slavery were still very common in the cocoa industry. |
1:28.0 | Nowadays, over one and a half million children work on cocoa farms in West Africa alone. |
1:36.5 | In some of those cases children are even abducted and trafficked which is truly horrible. Oh man. |
1:43.0 | In 2003, so this is before he started, Tony's Chocolone. |
1:47.0 | Tony reported himself, so he's an activist. |
1:50.0 | Tony reported himself to the police as a quote unquote chocolate criminal |
1:56.0 | because he had eaten a chocolate bar from one of the big chocolate companies |
2:01.0 | even though he was now aware of the child labor which is punishable by |
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