The 2024 Chocolate Scorecard | #PodSaveChocolate

By Clay Gordon | a month ago | 6 min read

Screen capture BSFwebsite | Pod graphic by: Sara Scodeller.

Episode 29 of #PodSaveChocolate features a discussion of the recently released Chocolate Scorecard. The bad, the worse, and the truly ugly.

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This episode airs live from 10:00 PDT / 10:00 MST (11:00 MDT, 12:00 CDT, 13:00 EDT) on Friday, March 22nd, 2024.

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Episode 29 Overview

In the weeks leading up to Easter, organizations around the world are hopping to it, metaphorically speaking, publishing guides aka scorecards to “ethical” chocolate brands – ones to laud and grace with our patronage and ones to cast aside as not worthy of our custom and to avoid.

One question that always comes to my mind when I see one of these guides is, “Why should anyone pay attention to them?”

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SPOILER ALERT: People like these scorecards because they serve as proxies for doing their own research.

To understand why I ask this question and have come to the conclusions I havee, it’s important to take a look at what the scorecards do – and don’t – say and what we can learn from looking at the progress of the scorecards and the information they present. And that’s what I will do in this episode.

The current publisher of the scorecard being examined in this episode - Be Slavery Free. Given what I have seen of this year’s scorecard and the “progress” over past scorecards, this is not an organization I can recommend supporting.

Despite what this page on the BSF website says (on March 20, 2023) clicking on this image takes you to the 2024 results.

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I wish I could provide a link to download a PDF of the 2024 scorecard but it appears as if no such link exists. That’s part of the problem of what I can only assume is a deliberate attempt to make it harder than it should be to ascertain progress.

Chocolate Scorecard 2023 Eng

Click to download the 2023 scorecard.

Chocolate Scorecard 2023 Eng.pdf

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