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When you dig deep enough into how manufacturing really works, there are few products, especially consumables, that are ethically sourced.


The show The Good Place explores this idea; it's impossible to live a good life because everything in the supply chain eventually has some bad aspect to it.


There has to be outliers worth avoiding.


Not when the countries that all the cocoa trees are in are known to have not so accountable governments.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263855/cocoa-bean-produc...

Same with mining for materials for electronics, as well as refining and manufacturing of them effectively happening in one country.




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