It would seem that the Cadbury Easter Bunny has been consorting with a cast of maniacal chocolate Ooompa Loompas!

Cadbury, Mars, Hershey and Nestlé have been served with a lawsuit alleging that they conspired to push up the prices of their chocolate bars over most of the last decade, drawing on claims that senior executives shared secret price information in brown envelopes and via distributors.

The suit, served in Hershey’s home state of Pennsylvania by a Minnesota grocery chain called Supervalu, adds to a mountain of litigation and regulatory scrutiny over alleged price-fixing.

Why this reminds me of Matt Damon in The Informant! Looks like Archers Daniel Midland aren’t the only ones out there price-fixing.

The audacity of nope.

In addition to the upsetting sexist assumptions on which the ad campaign is based, the ads also serve to mask the company’s purchasing policies which are indeed quite "greedy" and "naughty."  So who are the people who grow the main ingredient in Fling chocolate and do they get to experience the same pleasure promised to women who consume Mars chocolate here in the US?

Isn’t Mars Inc run by a nut job conservative family anyway? Anyhow the main point of the post on the Labor is not a Commodity blog is this.

We write frequently on this blog about ongoing problems of trafficked and child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa that supply for major chocolate companies like Mars.  Since 2001, people all around the world have been calling for Mars and other companies like Hershey and Nestle to support Fair Trade and stop exploiting cocoa farmers in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.