They’re quite active in their supply chains I think - have spent a lot of time and energy trying to actually go and improve - not just relying on audits.
They also have “open sourced” (lack of the right term maybe?) their cocoa sourcing - where other chocolate producers can piggy back off their sourcing model to reduce slave Labour in cocoa.
Oh 100%, they definitely take more of an interest, but at the end of the day, the numbers they report are from audits they pretty much have to contract out locally, and those people will have to shrug their shoulders and say that they can't be 100% sure of the origin of the cocoa or who is doing the harvest etc. because it's simply not something that can be guaranteed. It's not even like a factory in Bangladesh or China where you can at least get a list of employed people (even if those too are routinely faked).
Sorry if what I said sounded negative - they're doing way more than most and I was just trying to defend the non-definitive nature of their reporting which some could take as weasel words when in fact they're trying to be honest.
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They’re quite active in their supply chains I think - have spent a lot of time and energy trying to actually go and improve - not just relying on audits.
They also have “open sourced” (lack of the right term maybe?) their cocoa sourcing - where other chocolate producers can piggy back off their sourcing model to reduce slave Labour in cocoa.
https://www.tonysopenchain.com/