I was thinking about the cost of fair trade chocolate, likely because I was at Roast House Coffee thinking about fair trade coffee this morning. Is fair trade chocolate really much more expensive than conventional chocolate?
A Theo bar (3 ounces) at the Main Market Co-op is around $4.00, but has two servings. So, if you can control yourself and just eat half the bar (one serving) that's $2.00. And that is maybe 3 times the cost of a "regular" candy bar. But a "regular" candy bar usually is made up of a lot of other stuff than just chocolate--a lot of stuff that costs a lot less than chocolate.
And what of a "fancier" chocolate bar? A Godiva chocolate bar, if bought in bulk, is $2.91 per ounce and a half, that's almost $6.00 for the same weight of chocolate of the Theo bar.
Maybe it isn't so expensive to do the right thing after all.
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