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Mars and Seeds of Change
Seeds of Change is quite a mouth full when you realize that they have in fact CHANGED! (company was bought out by Mars) If you read the about us on their website, It’ll tell you about their long history of being organic sustainable…what it won’t tell you is that Mars bought Seeds of Change in 19xx. Since then, It’s been lanched in the UK and in this article on The Ecologist it details the money made and this little tidbit: ” In 2004 Mars failed to respond to an international petition urging it to include Fairtrade chocolate in its product range. “ I’ve written about chocolate before in regard to organic companies…interesting…
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Organic products companies – Did you know?
This link was shared with me on twitter a few weeks ago. I found it very interesting. Sometimes when a company name is new, you tend to think it’s a fresh new start. Not always as evident from at the chart above. Having read The Big Green Purse and the theme of your dollars going to help the environment, does this information sort of water down the impact? It makes you wonder sometimes. Perhaps in some cases, the big companies that offer both regular products and organic products have the advantage of telling which products have the best profit margin and hopefully that will be the organic ones. (that’s what…
