PARENTS have blasted a woke advent calendar that deliberately left one of its windows empty to highlight inequality. The Toney's Chocolonely Countdown Calendar was missing a morsel of chocolate for December 8, leaving some kids "in flood of tears". 2 One of the window's was missing its chocolate - much to kids' dismayThe company insisted the stunt, on day eight of the £12.99 advent calendar, was "to increase issue awareness" about the evils of the chocolate industry. "At Tony's we use our products to tell the story of an industry unequally divided and choc-full of inequality." 'Cos at Tony’s we use our products to tell the story of the choco industry – an industry unequally divided and choc-full of inequality.
Source: The Times December 13, 2021 05:04 UTC