- Hershey should agree to take immediate action to eliminate forced and child labor;
- Commitment to sourcing 100% Fair Trade Certified cocoa beans by 2012 for at least one of its top five selling bars;
- Commitment to making at least one more top five selling bar 100% Fair Trade Certified every two years;
- Commitment that most of Hershey’s chocolate will be Fair Trade Certified by 2022.
As individual consumers, even you can make a difference and help to urge Hershey to work towards ethical and transparent sourcing of its cocoa. Halloween is just a few days away and Hershey chocolate is one of America's favorites. There are a few steps that you can take while you are trick-or-treating. First of all, you can distribute flyers and collect petitions asking Hershey to supply Fair Trade chocolate. If you aren't going trick-or-treating, just take a few minutes to send an email to Hershey or fill out Hershey’s CSR survey and ask them to go Fair Trade. If you want to learn more about this issue you can order The Dark Side of Chocolate, a documentary providing a first-hand account of the use of child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa. Finally, you can also send an e-mail to Stephen Colbert asking him to reveal the labor abuses behind Hershey products.
