Six weeks after Stop the Traffik organized their March on Mars, the chocolate giant has committed to make incremental changes towards producing chocolate without slave labour. According to a recent update, Mars’ global range will be free from human trafficking by 2020:
As a first step, one of Mars’ leading brands, Galaxy bars, in the UK and Ireland, will be certified ‘from early 2010, through the Rainforest Alliance as, ‘free from trafficked and exploited labour’.
2020 seems a long way off, but this is still great news. Lets hope that more of these chocolate giants (Nestle, Kraft Foods) will join in this tide of change…
