Peikkometsä @peikkometsa - Tumblr Blog

took these screenshots for people like me who would rather just know how to opt out than read several paragraphs on corporate greed

autumnslance

Please note that this has to be done for each sideblog!

assignedmale

jewfrogs

falling asleep during the day: slipping away on a clouds so easy

falling asleep at night: I heard an ant gasp downstairs

bananonbinary

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

bananonbinary

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

closet-keys

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

aloofraven

I think it should be noted that the Food Empowerment Project specifically only lists companies making "at least one vegan chocolate product" and that they only ask about the companies' vegan chocolates specifically. Their list is not an exhaustive resource for every type of chocolate.

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

Before I found that link I was curious as to why I didn't see any Norwegian manufacturers on their list(which makes sense now, as their chocolates are almost exclusively milk chocolate) and looked up where our companies source their chocolate from and found Nidar gets theirs from the Rainforest Alliance and Freia from Cocoa Life, both of which have been under scrutiny for not preventing child labour and not paying farmers a living wage among other things. So it appears Norwegian chocolate is out of the ethical picture.

roninnozlo

I stated this in the comments of the post already, but it’d probably be better to add it as a reblog, so it’s more visible and doesn’t need to be restated by anyone else in the future.

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa.  Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are ea

And it doesn’t have the vegan product restriction the other list has, which solves @aloofraven’s issue.

podcastwizard

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

the-goddess-of-annoying

you people aren't CASTING

the-goddess-of-annoying

dogpuppy

creepycrag

Needlessly poetic in a way that draws your credibility into question. The whimsical typography also reduces the gravity of the statement. Please see the revised edition attached below.

grickle14

Interesting.

ruttotohtori

Helsinkiläinen Jylppy yrittää rikkoa Guinnesin ennätyksen vanhimpana elossa olevana kissana.

ruttotohtori

”Jylppy oli paljon enemmän kuin kissa.”

#Voi pientä ToT

creatingblackcharacters

hello! just wanted to give a little heads up that there’s a new vampire farming sim, moonlight peaks, that recently released. it has a really diverse cast of dateable characters, but, as a warning to any potential players of color, and especially Black players, they offer two styles of character portraits (one more realistic a d one more anime style) and the second anime style removes the ethnic features of the non-white dateables. the worst, by far, is elvira, the Black vampire bartender who has her wide nose changed to the typical anime point, fuller lips almost completely removed, and textured hair straightened. the devs have also come out and said they allow genAI modding in their discord (including portrait mods that either whitewash the characters or turn them into stereotypes) even encouraging and supporting some AI vibe-coders. their social media manager has also posted genAI character pictures, only removing one because it was nsfw when the ai and nsfw was pointed out. the fandom is also pretty racist, many claiming there are no attractive male dateables except for Death, the faceless grim reaper, and Ridge, the white lumberjack looking werewolf, and begging for another white character, Ridge’s brother, to be made romanceable because none of the others, noteably majority men of color, are attractive enough.

Oof.

kingcatnine

😧...

creatingblackcharacters

Oh that's criminal!!!

#oh no no no no!#that's bad in so many levels

baexywth

ffuscous

Butch Comix Vol. 2

autiebiographical

To be fair, all these walls make me much more suspicious of random calls or emails, making me harder to scam. A silver lining, I guess.

incendavery

DONT ask why corvid isnt wearing a shirt bc the answer is embarrassing. (i forgor to draw it)

incendavery

ostensible-adult

Image descriptions:

Image 1: A four-panel comic featuring furry characters "Cat", "Goat", and "Corvid". All text is all-caps. Panel 1: Cat says to Corvid "Hey. Your pronoun pin is upside down." Panel 2: A close-up of corvid's upside-down pronoun pin, reading "HE/THEY". Panel 3: Corvid says "Oh. Yeah. It came loose from its backing, and now it keeps doing that." Panel 4: Goat says "And here I thought you were flying it upside-down to signal distress", and Corvid laughs in small text.

Image 2: A single-panel comic labeled "Bonus Panel". Cat says "HE/THEY", with the text upside-down. Corvid says "How did you say that with your mouth??"

Image 3: A tumblr comment saying "Your pronouns are he/they now". "he/they" is written with non-standard characters so it appears to be written upside-down.

Image 4: Image 2, edited with the commenter's icon over Cat's head. Cat still says "HE/THEY" with upside-down text. Corvid now says "How did you type that with your keyboard??"