This Valentines Day our gift to you is an enhanced Free2Work.org, which will help you know what the likelihood your chocolate, is produced using bonded or forced child labor.  “As consumers its our responsibility to know if the goods we buy are perpetuating exploitative labor.  Unfortunately, no standard or system can ensure a product is 100% slave-free but as consumers, it is our responsibility to know which products are less likely to be produced by slaves,” David Batstone, President of the Not for Sale Campaign. “The concentration of slave labor used in chocolate production has significant implications for the credibility of the entire industry”.  This week before you purchase your loved ones chocolate checkout the companies rating on Free2Work.org!

Every year on Valentines Day we purchase chocolate and other wonderful gifts for those we love and care about.  These same delicious boxes of chocolate that signify love and care to us might mean pain and suffering to others.  A recent report by the Department of Labor documented that some chocolate we consume is still tainted by forced labor.   The report highlighted that forced and child labor continue to occur in a region that produces 70% of the worlds chocolate nine years after these labor abuses were exposed.