Mistakes with Chocolate

I recently heard a sermon from Steve Chalke, the founder of Stop the Traffik. His crusade is against human trafficking and slavery in the world.

He issued a challenge for us to rebel against the corporate empires that support slavery by eating only fair-trade chocolate. It's an immense challenge. 42% of all cocoa comes from Cote D'Ivoire in Africa says he. He goes on to say that this chocolate is most certainly harvested and produced by slaves.

It seems vague and unreal and all, but I decided to try it. I bought a bar for $3.50! Yikes. I felt God's pleasure in it. The next day though, I forgot completely about it as I bought some Oreo Cakesters. Gosh, that was a short-lived fight.

I want to do better in this area. I think that it is a pleasing endeavor toward God to support fair-trade, so I'll do what I can. I know I'm going to make mistakes, but I don't want to get to the end of my life having never rebelled in small ways against the apathetic masses who consume without thinking.

I'll share some sites for buying good fair trade stuff:

http://divine.serrv.org/crs/cart.php?m=product_list&c=3
http://www.clothingmatters.net/Mission.html
http://store.gxonlinestore.org/
http://www.puravidacoffeeshop.com/index.html