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Say Happy Easter by beingĀ  a good egg and giving good gifts. Even if you’re shopping last minute, it’s easy to find good gifts right away at stores open on Easter. Instead of buying chocolate made by child labor, choose from these chocolate brands that are fair trade and organic and are available in grocery stores, supermarkets and drug stores.

1. You can find Dagoba Organic Chocolate in Whole foods. Founder Frederick Schilling, explains “If true chocolate is to be kept in existence, we must encourage sustainable production of fine flavor cacao, through partnerships where farmers earn enough to do this.”

2. Luckily, you don’t have to go to Ithaca to find Art Bars (Ithaca Fine Chocolates’). They’re available at several stores throughout the country. Just click the Art Bars Near You link to see where you can buy these fair trade certified chocolates.

3. Newman’s Own Organics chocolate bars are made on child labor-free Latin American farms where nobody “owns” anybody. But if you want to buy, give or own any Newman’s Own chocolate, choose among these stores, including Whole Foods and Henry’s/Wild Oats. Eat like stars (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward)!

4. Green and Black’s chocolates are green-friendly and slavery-free and available at Whole Foods, Henry’s/Wild Oats.

5. The motto of Endangered Species chocolates is “Savor chocolate. Save our planet.” A portion of the proceeds goes to funds for the environment and for endangered species. These chocolates are available at several stores near you.

6. Equal Exchange knows that not all chocolate is created equal. They’re also available at Whole Foods.

7. Give a divine present by buying Divine Chocolate. Their chocolate isn’t organic but it’s all made on the Kuapa Kokoo, a farmers’ co-operative in Ghana. The co-op has invested in building schools, sinking wells for clean drinking water to villages, providing mobile medical clinics for farmers in remote growing regions, and fostering women’s income generation projects to help women earn additional income for their families when the cocoa season is over. You can find them at Food Emporium, Wild Oats and tons of other stores.

8. When you eat El Rey chocolate, you eat like a king, or como un rey. Luckily, you don’t have to go to Venezuela to buy this Venezuelan chocolate. Buy El Rey chocolate at a store near you.

9. Terra Nostra Organic chocolates are good to “our earth.” Not only is Terra Nostra organic and fair trade, they have a line of chocolate that is fair to the stomaches of the lactose-intolerant.

10. Yachana Gourmet chocolates are made in Ecuador but found in Wild Oats and many other stores. You now have 10 ways to take action. Now by watching this video about the effect of Yachana Gourmet and Yachana Foundation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. And then by adopting a cacao tree and helping save the rain forest. And see how else you can to stop chocolate slavery.

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