SLAVE-GROWN COCOA AND ,AMERICAN OPINION.
[To THE EDITOR OF TSB ..srserevos."3 Six,—Please find enclosed my letter to the New York Times of August 2nd, which was prompted by your appeal to the American people to make a stand against slave-grown cocoa. I have succeeded in calling the attention of the National Consumers' League to the subject, and write now to ask for the list of firms (which has been published from time to time in the Spectator) that have abstained from buying slave-grown produce, to lay before the Consumers' League. I should be glad of the information as to how the manufacturers, buying in the open market, know whence the supply comes.—I am, [The following are the firms who do not use slave-grown cocoa :— Army and Navy Stores. Fry and Sons.
Cadbury Brothers. Fuller and Co.
A. J. alley and Son. Rowntree and Co.
Carr and Co. S. Sainsbury.
Chocolat-Menier. Stollwercks.
Co-operative Wholesale Society. Suchard. Crosse and Blackwell. Schweitzer and Co.
Epps and Co. Van Houten.
We cannot say whether it would or would not be possible to deceive manufacturers as to the origin of the raw product, but we feel sure that, as a rule, buyers know, or can ascertain without much difficulty, where the cocoa they buy was grown. —ED. Spectator.]
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