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TIL Milka is now American owned.
I had no idea either. I always associated it as being a European chocolate, especially since it's basically impossible to find in the US outside of import stores.
Europe is not lacking at all in good local chocolate brands though, so it should be a no-brainer for replacing US brands.
Though I'd hope that they also work more on obtaining ethically-sourced chocolate beyond the base requirement of not being American-owned, since the global chocolate industry as a whole has a lot of problematic business practices such as the tacit support of slavery and child labor.
I think it gets tricky trying to support multiple causes. If you've watched the Good Place you probably know what I'm talking about, but if you try to do everything perfectly all the time, then you're just going to be miserable agonizing over every decision. I'm starting to think that it may be better to focus on causes that are higher priority to you and do what you reasonably can for lower priority causes where you have the bandwidth for.
Oh yeah, absolutely! No one could survive if they tried to champion every just cause. Sometimes triaging is the best we can do.
Just that I think it would be good for European goods to not only be alternatives, but better alternatives. Basically, don't settle for Nestle just because they're headquarted in Europe and not the US, find better alternatives within Europe (or the EU specifically) to further promote if they exist.
Reducing child labor in cocoa farming requires legal changes in Ghana as to how you purchase cocoa. Currently everything is bought from brokers who can obscure the labor practices involved.
It's produced by Kraft Jacobs Suchard, now named Mondelez since the 90s.