Carol Off

“As I look at the young faces, the questions in their eyes are the measure of a vast gulf between the children who eat chocolate on their way to school in North America and those who have no school at all, who must, from childhood, work to survive. An I feel the profound irony before me: the children who struggle to produce the small delights of life in the world I come from have never known such pleasure, and most likely, they never will.

It's a measure of the separation in our worlds, a distance now so staggeringly vast...the distance between the hand that picks the cocoa and the hand that reaches for the chocolate bar.”
― Carol Off, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

“Low prices are what consumers consider fair, even if their affordable goods create injustice elsewhere.”
― Carol Off, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet