Please Eggsplain?!

I see the chocolate eggs have already appeared in the supermarkets at over-inflated prices, heralding the beginning of the Easter profiteering period for the confectionery companies...

I defy anyone to give me a good reason why Easter Eggs should be available to the general public so early in the year. I can't think of one.

Now we already know that something like 43% of the world's cocoa comes from Africa's Ivory Coast, where human trafficking is rife (some 12,000 slaves working in this region alone - that's just the ones we know about).  It also appears the major companies like Nestle (shudder!) and Cadbury won't guarantee their cocoa is not sourced from traffic-free areas. How then, can any of us accept these products being offered as early as 3 months prior Easter to such an oblivious public? (see here for a guide to buying Fair Trade chocolate)

As a former Hobartian, it was rare for 3 months to go past without a tour of Cadbury's Claremont factory. You got to pig out on free samples along the way as the nice tour guide lady went on about how good the company is. And at the end of the tour there was the seconds shop where you could stock up on enough reject product for the next 3 months! Spent many happy times there...

Can't bring myself to buy the stuff now. And reading this confirms it.

Would be sweet to see the Chaser's or some crazy Salvo sneak a camera on one of those tours and ask those nice tour guide ladies where they get their cocoa from, non-stop for the entire tour! 

It really does make you sick. But how do we inform the rest of Australia and make the rest of the nation equally ill???