Chocolate Rabbit Dilemma in the Inferiority Complex! (feel free to laugh, please)

[motherinferior]

To nobody's great surprise, I have liberalpinko Issues about Chocolate ? production of, not consumption. And therefore ordered a bunch of Divine choc eggs and mini eggs, which have arrived.

Ah, but now I see that Mr Inferior has put some G&B eggs ? which are NOT fairly traded although more ethically produced than others, I think on our Ocado order (not yet processed); plus, crucially, a couple of Lindt chocolate rabbits.

While Abel & Cole, our rightonliberalpinko organic delivery lot, is doing mini chocolate rabbits from the Chocolate Alchemist, which are I think produced with some degree of fairness. Although not FT logoed. Also no bell round neck.

So, do I interfere with Mr Inferior's parenting/consumer rights by cancelling his rabbits in the interests of World Fairness and Equity?

(Feel free to snigger. I am, dammit.)

yep
bin the bunnies
get some little bells if this is a crucial part of the appeal
one has to draw the line and make a stand somewhere, doesn't one?

Oh, make your own, surely? Get liberalpinko chocolate, and the added bonus of your own sweat and tears...

No, you're not his keeper. You inform him but you don't have to take responsibility for his consumption.

I have this all the time, you are lucky with green and blacks, my DP buys sickly Cadbury's eggs. As well as lindt rabbits. They're not even particularly nice chocolate.

the lindt rabbit do tend to hang around uneaten in this house

PONCE!

Ah, but those are the Rabbits of Slavery, you know. Which I could replace with Rabbits of Properly Paid Liberty.

you should recycle the bells on ribbons anyway rather than consuming new ones every Easter. Make your own. Tin foil, perhaps egg boxes, and ribbon left over from Christmas present unwrapping.

I secretly rather yearn for those CA rabbits in any case.

But they are not Your rabbit purchases. Don't you feel, MI, that taking over DP's purchasing is just a teensy bit wifely?

Truly liberated rabbits don't have bells, surely?

Get both (more choc plus more money to downtrodden cocoa workers). Or send the Lindt bunnies to me and I will dispose of them in an ethical manner

I could call it direct action, though, Fennel. Consumer power and all that.

(tho if DH cancelled my choc bunnies inn favour if fairtrade I would be tempted to spend my next month's salary on Nestle in revenge. But maybe your DH doesn't have control issues )

in favour of

It's upgrading the chocolate bunny order though, rather than cancelling, isn't it? I might not mind if DP upgraded my chocolate order to better more expensive chocolate.

Ah but do his individual rights as a consumer (such as they are) win over the rights of people working in the chocolate 'industry' to a decent level of conditions and pay, eh?

And what makes you think those rabbits are for the Inf'ettes at all?? - whenever I find things helpfully added to our shopping list they always turn out to be for the personal delectation of Number One.

take a step back. his decision. if my gf ever did something like decide to cancel something i'd bought based on her social views there'd be a problem.

ie - this is not necessarily a parenting issue

They're supposedly his social views too, though. Half our fecking household is fair fecking trade. Including pants.

yes

May I offer a cuationary tale?

It was precisely a chocolate egg issue last year which acted as a catalyst to DP and I seeking counselling.

(I was out shopping with DS, DS saw a cheap Yorkie Bar egg in Tesco, badly wanted to buy it for DP as the two of them had been scoffing 'not for girls' Yorkie bars, I was in rush, bought it, DP ranted about fair trade and capitalism and commercialism of easter in front of DS DS devastated...cue events which led to counselling...)

You can cancel the bunnies leading swiftly towards the dismatling of your relationship, family and household, which will be terrible because your DP will then go his own way without any futher education or influence from you about fair trade issues and children worldwide wil go hungry, OR you can appreciate the importance of the bell round neck, accept the Ocado Lindt bunnies and continue your rlationship, family, household, and most crucially, ongoing sensitisation of MrInferior.

I LOVE those Lindt bunnies and reindeer....

Yes, he's got considerable spending power which should be Harnessed for Good, shouldn't it.

(I do realise that Ocado ordering has also played ahem its part in the Blu household dis/harmony .)

bell round neck impt imo

M&S had some lovely things this morning when i was browsing..but not sure of their Status