>> The good news: At least in the U.K., more ethically-produced fair trade chocolate’ll be a lot easier to find, since Cadbury’s announced it’ll make Cadbury Dairy Milk bars with fair trade chocolate. (via Change)

>> The bad news: Most chocolate still isn’t fair trade and may be produced via child trafficking and abusive labor. Earlier: Change your choco habit, change the world (a little)

>> The hopeful news: Divine Chocolate, a fair trade choco company co-owned by cocoa farmers, wants you to Egg a Politician. Aim your egg at one of the five leaders — Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, Manmohan Singh or Wen Jiabao — attending the G20 summit, then send an email to the politicians asking them to keep fair trade on the G20 agenda.

>> The educational news. Michael Niemann, who’s writing a book about global cocoa and the chocolate commodity chain, provides updated choco trade news, info, and analysis at his blog, Bitter Chocolate.

Update, 8/26/09: Cadbury commits to more fair trade chocolate — but not in the U.S.

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