Product Review: Nocciolata Organic Hazelnut & Cocoa Spread (VEGAN)

You can go here to find more info on Vegan Nocciolata Organic Hazelnut & Cocoa Spread.

And if you’re interested in what it means for products to be marked as “cruelty-free” and “vegan” that include non-exploited human labor, you can check out Food Empowerment Project. They engage in food justice and farmworker rights with a vegan framework and have an excellent campaign that asks companies to source their cocoa ethically. I am hoping that Rigoni di Asiago does source their cocoa under non-cruel conditions; maybe they just didn’t label it yet.

UPDATE July 26 2016: Rigoni di Asiago contacted me and they said that they indeed use a Fair Trade source of cocoa. I asked them if they can update their labels to reflect this in the near future!

(Credit: Pax Ahimsa Gethen 2016)

About Dr. A. Breeze Harper Dr. Harper has been invited to deliver many keynote addresses and lectures at universities and conferences throughout North America. In 2015, her lecture circuit focused on the analysis of food and whiteness in her book Scars and on “Gs Up Hoes Down:” Black Masculinity, Veganism, and Ethical Consumption (The Remix) which explored how key Black vegan men us hip-hop methods to create “race-conscious” and decolonizing approaches to vegan philosophies.Dr. Harper’s most recently published book, Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England (Sense Publishers 2014)interrogates how systems of oppression and power impact the life of the only Black teenager living in an all white and working class rural New England town. Her current lecture circuit focus on excerpts from her latest book in progress, Recipes for Racial Tension Headaches: A Critical Race Feminist’s Journey Through ‘Post-Racial’ Ethical Foodscape. In tandem with this book project, she is well-known for her talks and workshops about “Uprooting White Fragility in the Ethical Foodscape” and “Intersectional Anti-Racism Activism.”

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