Hi Gittemary, Im form Mexico so i thought i would correct some misused words here. First, its not only form South America (because that division technically starts from around Colombia) and Mexico is technically a North America country, however, if we concentrate in the areas rather than modern division of countries the correct word would be Central America or Latin America to be less specific. Now, the aztecs refers to a bigger group of indigenous tribes, the correct word is mexicas (the x is pronounced as sh) which is the ones i believe you were referring to. Then, the name theobroma cacao is the scientific name i believe coming form greek; cacao comes from the mayan name meaning something like red strength or fire, and the word chocolate comes from the Nahuatl name (spoken by the mexicas) xokolatl but there is a bit of confusion about its meaning, it can be between the color brown or bitter water. By the way, loved your reaction to colonialism!! Great video!
Colonisation is a big part of history. Not just England either, Spanish colonised Mexico, Mexico tried colonising America but failed, many people invaded and colonised but only whites are made to feel guilty or like we should feel guilty of what some Englishmen did.. weird being Irish and being made to feel guilty for what Engand/US/Israel have done, especially after what they did to the Irish too, colonised and stood over us for centuries.
@@chrisom4699 México tried to what? when exactly did Mexico tried to colonise America???? And its not about white people feeling guilty about what other white people did centuries ago, its about recognise that because of what happend, we were put in a better position and have more oportunities, privilages and right that others
I’ve found that since becoming vegan the amount of chocolate I’ve eaten has gone down significantly just because so much of it has milk, even dark chocolate. I love how you’ve considered the human impact in regard to child labor and slavery and not just the environmental. Thanks for the super informative vid!
Wow, I'm impressed with the amount of information, you've presented in this video! Did you maybe think about doing similar video about coffee? There are different segments of market (like domestic, premium, specialty), many coffee plantations use monoculture farming system and I'm personally wondering, how sustainable is drinking specialty coffee. Anyway, great video!
My uncle produce coffee, they often use a lot of pesticides (unless it's like an organic farm or sth) and most of it is grow in monocultural expecially if it's for exportation, some people have the habit of burning down the coffee trees to 'clean' and get the area ready for new ones, in my region most of the farms are old so at least there's not much of destroing native old forests for it (as there is for meat for exemple). That's why I can say for how it's produced in Southeast Brazil (country that exports it a lot)
So many countries deserve to be filthy rich because they produce these things that we love ex: cacao, sugar, ect Honestly if these have to become luxuries to be sustainable, then so be it. I'd pay a premium price to know that the proper people are receiving the money/it's being produced in the best/most sustainable way possible (I currently try to only buy chocolate, sugar, and coffee, that is Fair Trade Certified)
I recently started a job that partners with a hotel a lot. I didn't realize just how wasteful hotels are and think it would be a great addition to the series! (Maybe you could combine it with the restaurant/fine dining industry 🤷♀)
Hi Gittemary! Have you by any chance thought of making a video on environmental impact of collecting - accumulating huge amounts of the same objects as a hobby and how it is overconsumption at its fullest? I have stumbled upon a tiktok where a collector of Kinder Surprise toys has a whole room showered with those tiny plastic figurines and thought of their symbolic value to this person in particular vs. real impact.
I really enjoyed this video. I'm wondering if you could do one on coffee. I'd really like to know how to be more mindful when purchasing coffee. I love your channel and your energy is so uplifting. If I'm in a bad mood, I can play one of your videos and it can put me in a better mood and it reminds me that there are good people in the world who care about our planet! I like hearing how I can make a difference.
Thank you for this, I learned A LOT! I've been probably overconsuming chocolate recently (Fair Trade and vegan, so a bit better) but I had no idea the environmental impact so now it's going to be a treat food :)
I don’t really like the taste of dark chocolate so it’s been hard to find any that are vegan and actually tastes good so that already cuts down a lot of my consumption there, unfortunately a lot of the sweet-ish ones I can find also have palm oil so that also cuts it down a lot, I think I found a good one that uses oat milk though there’s still that extra resource to worry about, and they also help endangered species! I don’t know what goes into their labor but it definitely seems like a better alternative to mainstream chocolate even though it may just be like you said where it’s better than a big brand like nestle but that’s also not hard to do
super informative video as always, thank you gittemary! to all the chocolate lovers, i recommend *chobachoba* chocolate! they went even further than direct trade, the farmers are part of the entreprise and even hold a part of the shares, which also means, that they have decisive power! and, there packaging is absolutely gorgous and finally, most of the products are vegan!
Oh I remember choba choba from when I lived in South West Germany and went to Basel, Switzerland sometimes. It's actually a Swiss chocolate and very nice. Unfortunately I've never seen it here in Scotland anywhere to buy.
@@veronicav3010 I looked it up and yes, seems like in some South American countries, cocoa is also used. In Spain's Spanish doesn't exist/is used. Thanks for letting me know, now I learned something new 😍☺️
Thank you for this video. However I work in this industry and this concept of direct trade is purely a marketing term. Even if a farm sells directly to a chocolate manufacturer, the way logistics work these days, there are at least two governments (from both origin as well as destination) as well as customs, certifying bodies (the more certificates the product needs, the more expensive and cumbersome this process becomes), banks to process transactions and all of these middle men take a huge percentage of money and also decreasing the ethical standards of a product. These certifications are more of a pain for farmers than a way to protect their rights. Because the certifying bodies are also for profit companies.
A positive impact would assume that the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the cacao trees is greater than the amount emitted, which, sadly it isn’t, and a central aspect in this is that there is an overall problem with how farmers are organised/administrated. If an area is dried out from cacao plantations, the farming practise moves to a new location, chops down wild vegetation and plants cacao trees, which then also dry out or mature, and then the land is left bare. From what I can see, older plantations are not used for replanting, which will inherently result in a negative impact 🌿
The CO2 per produced kg seems like a good way to compare different things of the same kind (different meats/proteins, for instance) but it seems a little weird to me to compare a kg of chocolate to a kg of apples this way. We easily eat a kg of apples in a week but definitely not a kilo of chocolate. :D Is there a better way to measure environmental impact, one that may reflect a "per portion" (though what you count as a portion is another great way to cheat the numbers... hello food industry) impact?
The comparison was also just meant to provide somewhat of an overview, a ballpark if you will - overall it is really difficult to compare different products in terms of impact because sustainable are measured on many parameters and we use different products in different ways, like you mentioned with quantity vs impact per kg. So the purpose of as simply to determine in which end of the impact spectrum chocolate can be placed, but perhaps comparing it to other sweets and snacks would have been more helpful 😅👌
@@Gittemary Yeah, that was part of why I asked, it seems like an incredibly difficult thing to measure. The ballpark positioning makes perfect sense on an industry level, I think that was super useful. Comparing it to other sweets & snacks would've been a nice addition, yeah, but it's still an awesome video. Heck, everything that makes me think is an awesome video!
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I don't quite agree with you. I more easily eat a kilo of dark chocolate than a kilo of apple in a week. I eat chocolate every day whereas my consumption of apples depends of the seasonal production. And lots of people I know also eat chocolate every day but not apples.
really impressive video! loved the amount of information and effort you put in this video. It really helped me understand this topic more and gave me and overall idea of all the aspects that factor into it.
"In the wake of human exploitation and slavery"... ? In the 1500s ?? But exploitation and slavery have been around forever. Starting in Africa and Middle East. What do you mean by "in the wake" ?
This was so interesting, thank you for all the details! I’m currently trying to find ways to live a more sustainable and ethical day to day life and this is something i can easily change so thank you for all the information.
I really enjoy your impact video’s, they are very informative. Thank you for doing the research and taking the time to make these. Hopefully or will help people be more mindful of how they consume thus helping to make change in the way procedures are done within the supply chain.
Oooh I didn't know Tony's was known outside the Netherlands! Love their vegan options but definitely only eat them in moderation (I often get them as gifts and rarely buy chocolate myself). Thanks for this video Gittemary! 💚
Excellent video GitterMary but it's not put me off Chocolate ( I don't think anything can). A informative and interesting video and love 🥰 it. Love 💕 GitterMary.
If you are in the UK I recommend Montezuma's. They make great chocolate and are pretty good on ethics and sustainability. I buy their unsweetened Absolute Black chocolate. The wrapper and cardboard packaging are compostable.
Wow, I am always very impressed with the amount of research you do when prepping for a new video. So many interesting and shocking information in this video about chocolate. I don't eat it often, and then I would buy fairtrade chocolate now and then.
After working at a retail pharmacy(17.5 years)that had seasonal candy & a perpetual bag of chocolate somewhere, I have most definitely too much chocolate. Five years retired(thankfully😂), I’ll gladly have homemade potato chips 😁
Awesome! I just made a life cycle assesment on chocolate for a uni course and we came to similar conclusions. Too bad we couldn't read your sources haha :)
@@maleahlock Thank you Maleah! I meant that I wished that the video had been published earlier so that we could've used the sources in the report, now it's already finished. Poor writing from my side :p
Now I wonder how you would rate Ritter Sport. They always promote what they do to make it more socially okay but it's still promotion I guess. Great video
This was super informative! There’s so many problems I didn’t even know about… I will definitely be paying much more attention to what chocolate I buy now
Hi Gittemary, Im form Mexico so i thought i would correct some misused words here. First, its not only form South America (because that division technically starts from around Colombia) and Mexico is technically a North America country, however, if we concentrate in the areas rather than modern division of countries the correct word would be Central America or Latin America to be less specific. Now, the aztecs refers to a bigger group of indigenous tribes, the correct word is mexicas (the x is pronounced as sh) which is the ones i believe you were referring to. Then, the name theobroma cacao is the scientific name i believe coming form greek; cacao comes from the mayan name meaning something like red strength or fire, and the word chocolate comes from the Nahuatl name (spoken by the mexicas) xokolatl but there is a bit of confusion about its meaning, it can be between the color brown or bitter water. By the way, loved your reaction to colonialism!! Great video!
Thank you so much for these corrections, this is really helpful ❤️
Colonisation is a big part of history. Not just England either, Spanish colonised Mexico, Mexico tried colonising America but failed, many people invaded and colonised but only whites are made to feel guilty or like we should feel guilty of what some Englishmen did.. weird being Irish and being made to feel guilty for what Engand/US/Israel have done, especially after what they did to the Irish too, colonised and stood over us for centuries.
@@chrisom4699 México tried to what? when exactly did Mexico tried to colonise America???? And its not about white people feeling guilty about what other white people did centuries ago, its about recognise that because of what happend, we were put in a better position and have more oportunities, privilages and right that others
I’ve found that since becoming vegan the amount of chocolate I’ve eaten has gone down significantly just because so much of it has milk, even dark chocolate.
I love how you’ve considered the human impact in regard to child labor and slavery and not just the environmental. Thanks for the super informative vid!
I used to be this way til I found good vegan chocolate and starter overconsuming again, but after learning this, no more!
Wow, I'm impressed with the amount of information, you've presented in this video! Did you maybe think about doing similar video about coffee? There are different segments of market (like domestic, premium, specialty), many coffee plantations use monoculture farming system and I'm personally wondering, how sustainable is drinking specialty coffee. Anyway, great video!
it's so helpful, right?! I think a coffee impact video would be so valuable
My uncle produce coffee, they often use a lot of pesticides (unless it's like an organic farm or sth) and most of it is grow in monocultural expecially if it's for exportation, some people have the habit of burning down the coffee trees to 'clean' and get the area ready for new ones, in my region most of the farms are old so at least there's not much of destroing native old forests for it (as there is for meat for exemple). That's why I can say for how it's produced in Southeast Brazil (country that exports it a lot)
So many countries deserve to be filthy rich because they produce these things that we love ex: cacao, sugar, ect
Honestly if these have to become luxuries to be sustainable, then so be it. I'd pay a premium price to know that the proper people are receiving the money/it's being produced in the best/most sustainable way possible
(I currently try to only buy chocolate, sugar, and coffee, that is Fair Trade Certified)
I recently started a job that partners with a hotel a lot. I didn't realize just how wasteful hotels are and think it would be a great addition to the series! (Maybe you could combine it with the restaurant/fine dining industry 🤷♀)
so true!!
Hi Gittemary! Have you by any chance thought of making a video on environmental impact of collecting - accumulating huge amounts of the same objects as a hobby and how it is overconsumption at its fullest? I have stumbled upon a tiktok where a collector of Kinder Surprise toys has a whole room showered with those tiny plastic figurines and thought of their symbolic value to this person in particular vs. real impact.
I really enjoyed this video. I'm wondering if you could do one on coffee. I'd really like to know how to be more mindful when purchasing coffee.
I love your channel and your energy is so uplifting. If I'm in a bad mood, I can play one of your videos and it can put me in a better mood and it reminds me that there are good people in the world who care about our planet! I like hearing how I can make a difference.
I recommend the book "The World that Trade Created" by Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik for some good historical stuff on this!
Thank you for this, I learned A LOT! I've been probably overconsuming chocolate recently (Fair Trade and vegan, so a bit better) but I had no idea the environmental impact so now it's going to be a treat food :)
That is how I see it too, it might be difficult to cut it out completely, but now it is a treat reserved for more special occasions ☺️👏🌿
@@Gittemary For sure!!
So informative! I love how much research you put into this video. I appreciate your honest and straightforward approach to this topic
Thank you so much for the support 😊
Less chocolate? 😥 there new farmers growing cacao in Puerto Rico. I will stick with buying locally. Thanks for the tip. 😍
I don’t really like the taste of dark chocolate so it’s been hard to find any that are vegan and actually tastes good so that already cuts down a lot of my consumption there, unfortunately a lot of the sweet-ish ones I can find also have palm oil so that also cuts it down a lot, I think I found a good one that uses oat milk though there’s still that extra resource to worry about, and they also help endangered species! I don’t know what goes into their labor but it definitely seems like a better alternative to mainstream chocolate even though it may just be like you said where it’s better than a big brand like nestle but that’s also not hard to do
My recommendations are iChoc and Vego :)
I have the same issue, No dairy then you get so much un desirable ingredients in vegan chocolate today!
I have to just avoid it
Dirty Cow choc? NJ x
Does anyone have any ethical/sustainable chocolate brands that they could recommend?
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check out the article I just posted
I know that'll regreat to realize that I need to eat less chocolate... But lets go!
I appreciate this energy 👏😎
Every impact video :')
super informative video as always, thank you gittemary! to all the chocolate lovers, i recommend *chobachoba* chocolate! they went even further than direct trade, the farmers are part of the entreprise and even hold a part of the shares, which also means, that they have decisive power! and, there packaging is absolutely gorgous and finally, most of the products are vegan!
Oh I remember choba choba from when I lived in South West Germany and went to Basel, Switzerland sometimes. It's actually a Swiss chocolate and very nice. Unfortunately I've never seen it here in Scotland anywhere to buy.
Fun fact: in Spanish the same word is used for cacao and cocoa (it's simply cacao). Great video! I love it ❤️
It's the same in Italian! 🙂
We do have both words “cacao” y “cocoa” in Spanish 😊
Pero, perhaps the use of one or both depends on the country 🤷🏽♀️
@@veronicav3010 I looked it up and yes, seems like in some South American countries, cocoa is also used. In Spain's Spanish doesn't exist/is used. Thanks for letting me know, now I learned something new 😍☺️
I live I Brazil (South america) and there's a business in my region that makes vegan chocolate ((:
You do great research. It’s amazing how evil nestle is and it just keeps growing.
Thank you for this video. However I work in this industry and this concept of direct trade is purely a marketing term. Even if a farm sells directly to a chocolate manufacturer, the way logistics work these days, there are at least two governments (from both origin as well as destination) as well as customs, certifying bodies (the more certificates the product needs, the more expensive and cumbersome this process becomes), banks to process transactions and all of these middle men take a huge percentage of money and also decreasing the ethical standards of a product. These certifications are more of a pain for farmers than a way to protect their rights. Because the certifying bodies are also for profit companies.
I am sad to hear that even the most “direct” ways of production aren’t even working, thank you for mentioning it! 👏
What about the positive impact from the absorbed co2?
A positive impact would assume that the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the cacao trees is greater than the amount emitted, which, sadly it isn’t, and a central aspect in this is that there is an overall problem with how farmers are organised/administrated. If an area is dried out from cacao plantations, the farming practise moves to a new location, chops down wild vegetation and plants cacao trees, which then also dry out or mature, and then the land is left bare. From what I can see, older plantations are not used for replanting, which will inherently result in a negative impact 🌿
The CO2 per produced kg seems like a good way to compare different things of the same kind (different meats/proteins, for instance) but it seems a little weird to me to compare a kg of chocolate to a kg of apples this way. We easily eat a kg of apples in a week but definitely not a kilo of chocolate. :D Is there a better way to measure environmental impact, one that may reflect a "per portion" (though what you count as a portion is another great way to cheat the numbers... hello food industry) impact?
The comparison was also just meant to provide somewhat of an overview, a ballpark if you will - overall it is really difficult to compare different products in terms of impact because sustainable are measured on many parameters and we use different products in different ways, like you mentioned with quantity vs impact per kg. So the purpose of as simply to determine in which end of the impact spectrum chocolate can be placed, but perhaps comparing it to other sweets and snacks would have been more helpful 😅👌
@@Gittemary Yeah, that was part of why I asked, it seems like an incredibly difficult thing to measure. The ballpark positioning makes perfect sense on an industry level, I think that was super useful. Comparing it to other sweets & snacks would've been a nice addition, yeah, but it's still an awesome video. Heck, everything that makes me think is an awesome video!
I don't quite agree with you.
I more easily eat a kilo of dark chocolate than a kilo of apple in a week. I eat chocolate every day whereas my consumption of apples depends of the seasonal production. And lots of people I know also eat chocolate every day but not apples.
I’ve boughten fair trade chocolate for the last several years, just horrible what some farms do to kids! Thank you for the share!
really impressive video! loved the amount of information and effort you put in this video. It really helped me understand this topic more and gave me and overall idea of all the aspects that factor into it.
"In the wake of human exploitation and slavery"... ? In the 1500s ?? But exploitation and slavery have been around forever. Starting in Africa and Middle East. What do you mean by "in the wake" ?
This was so interesting, thank you for all the details! I’m currently trying to find ways to live a more sustainable and ethical day to day life and this is something i can easily change so thank you for all the information.
"Impact of weddings" for February? Anyone? 😄
Much love from the Netherlands!
Thx gittemary for your content, I honestly didn't know the relationship between slavery and chocolate, that's a huge eye opener.
Thank you GIttemary, great video. You're right, we won't die if we reduce our consumption!
I really enjoy your impact video’s, they are very informative. Thank you for doing the research and taking the time to make these. Hopefully or will help people be more mindful of how they consume thus helping to make change in the way procedures are done within the supply chain.
Thank you so much for the support! 💚
Love Chock chocolate is AMAZING and very healthy since it’s made with raw cacao
I watched this video while eating chocolate. Definitely made me rethink my consumption of chocolate!
Thank you so much for doing this research! I’m so grateful!
Oooh I didn't know Tony's was known outside the Netherlands! Love their vegan options but definitely only eat them in moderation (I often get them as gifts and rarely buy chocolate myself). Thanks for this video Gittemary! 💚
Yes I can buy Tony’s here in Texas but only in specialty food stores like Sprouts
@@celestialbunny12 Tony's is available here in the UK as well
Lol, ultimate sustainability = get a green house and a couple of your own trees! It will taste so much better if you grow and make it yourself!
Thank u for the info.
Am always looking to find out more about impact on the planet we all live on!
not a lindor ad right before the video 🙈
Hahaha 😂👏
Tony's is good but there are some other local companies too that make small batches
Excellent video GitterMary but it's not put me off Chocolate ( I don't think anything can). A informative and interesting video and love 🥰 it. Love 💕 GitterMary.
Great video! Would love to see a video on the impact of coffee! You cover each topic so well.
If you are in the UK I recommend Montezuma's. They make great chocolate and are pretty good on ethics and sustainability. I buy their unsweetened Absolute Black chocolate. The wrapper and cardboard packaging are compostable.
Wow, I am always very impressed with the amount of research you do when prepping for a new video. So many interesting and shocking information in this video about chocolate. I don't eat it often, and then I would buy fairtrade chocolate now and then.
Is Galaxy chocolate sustainable?
Great video again 🙌
Do you wanna make an impact video about skiing/winter sports sometime? I've heard that it is really bad for the environment.. 😢
Love those videos. Keep creating this content!
After working at a retail pharmacy(17.5 years)that had seasonal candy & a perpetual bag of chocolate somewhere, I have most definitely too much chocolate. Five years retired(thankfully😂), I’ll gladly have homemade potato chips 😁
I’d love it if you did the impact of coffee!!!
There's quite a bit of fair trade. Hopefully there will be big bags of fair trade chocolate in big grocery stores soon,
Very informative 👍
Thanks for this insightful video. You changed my view of the chocolate industry, I will make sure to change the way I consume it. :)
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You have put a lot of effort into this video!👏Thank you for spreading this important information👏
Thank you for the support! ✨
Thanks for the very informative video!
Awesome! I just made a life cycle assesment on chocolate for a uni course and we came to similar conclusions. Too bad we couldn't read your sources haha :)
Her sources are all listed within the video on screen, and in the description. The links all seem to be working for me 🙂
@@maleahlock Thank you Maleah! I meant that I wished that the video had been published earlier so that we could've used the sources in the report, now it's already finished. Poor writing from my side :p
Now I wonder how you would rate Ritter Sport. They always promote what they do to make it more socially okay but it's still promotion I guess. Great video
This was super informative! There’s so many problems I didn’t even know about… I will definitely be paying much more attention to what chocolate I buy now
Then you think about how much more it rained annually before the decimation of rain forests!
10:20 No one ever looked so pretty while criticizing others.
Great video! Thanks for the informations! Your work is so important!
Very informative, I learned a lot. Thank you!