We’ve tasted a lot of chocolate here at Mambo, and there’s definitely something sweeter about organic, fair-trade chocolate. Maybe it’s something magical about the love hidden away in that chocolate – love for our bodies protected from dangerous pesticides… love for the planet… love for the cocoa bean farmers who were paid fairly and treated with dignity. Here are 3 reasons to LOVE organic, fair-trade chocolate.
Show Some Love for Your Health:
You know that organic is healthier. But aren’t sweets like chocolate already unhealthy? What difference does it make if it’s organic? Hey, trust us – it makes a huge difference! Many pesticides are used on non-organic cocoa beans. Hydrogen Cyanide? Methyl Bromide? These horrific chemical concoctions make our heads spin! The chance of ingesting even a trace of any of these dangerous chemicals makes conventional chocolate look totally unappealing to us – and that’s saying something. (Hey, we do love our chocolate!) Organic chocolate, on the other hand, is completely pesticide-free – so we can indulge, worry-free!
Show Some Love to our Beloved Earth:
It isn’t just our health that’s at stake! Those same pesticides are poisoning the local wildlife and the soil, too. Non-organic chocolate shows no love for the land! Plus, when cocoa beans aren’t grown using a traditional shade-growing system, it puts an expiration date on the land. It breaks our Earth-loving hearts! But responsibly grown chocolate is made from shade-grown cocoa beans. And the healthier the land where cocoa beans are grown, the better the taste of the final product! Now that’s yummy chocolate!
Show Some Love to Cocoa Bean Farmers Around the Globe:
We know that chocolate is made from cocoa beans. The farmers who grown the beans deserve to be treated fairly. Caring for farmers means choosing with our dollars to give them a decent wage and respectable conditions. We all deserve to feel the love, especially when it comes to chocolate! Fair trade is a guarantee that the chocolate we choose to buy is made by a caring company – one that’s doing the right things for farmers! Though we can’t thank them personally each time we taste their scrumptious cocoa, we can make sure that more of our dollars end up in the right hands.
Let our hearts be light this Valentine’s Day. It’s such a beautiful feeling knowing that by choosing organic & fair-trade, we’re showing love to ourselves & our loved ones, our planet and our far-away neighbors, too. It’s a win-win-win!
And speaking of winning, here’s how Mambo wants to share the LOVE this Valentine’s Day.
We want to give three of our beloved readers an Organic Chocolate & Coffee Pairing Gift Bag generously supplied by Equal Exchange! This kit includes a variety of organic, fair-trade coffee and chocolates (Packaged in a 100% Recycled Printed Gift Bag). Find more fair trade & organic products on Equal Exchange’s online store.
How to enter: Leave a comment on this blog post. Let us know how your Valentine’s Day plans include loving the Earth and you could win!
Want more chances to win? Here are three more ways:
1. Spread the word about this giveaway on Twitter and include #mambovday in your message
2. Blog about this giveaway and let us know by emailing the URL to your blog post to mambosprouts@gmail.com.
3. Become our fan on Facebook and post a comment about your earth-friendly valentines day plans on our facebook fan page.
Enter by Feb 14th! Winners will be chosen and notified by email, on or around February 17th. Click here for official rules.
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