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KIT KAT

Nestle recently announced their decision to end the Kit Kat Fairtrade certification. Tim Adams in his Observer Notebook describes this as shameful. He points out that ‘many of the families working the Ivory cocoa plantations subsist on less than the price of a Kit Kat per day.’ The 10% premium paid by Fair Trade not only allows the community to invest in schools and sanitation, it removes uncertainty from their lives. However cocoa producers receive about 6% of the value of a chocolate bar, whilst Nestle, who make a billion Kit Kats a year, made a profit of £8bn. As Tim Adams says ‘have a break from buying Kit Kats until the policy is reversed’.

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