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  Thanks for sticking about to celebrate the opening of our retail location- has been a long 9 years, but, it just keeps going. I wanted to take this opportunity of your undivided attention, to provide a bit of insight as to our adjusted approach at Zimt. Some things are not going to change- vegan everything (always), organic always, compostable packaging (even-when-it-is-difficult/expensive) and trying to produce as little waste as possible in our day-to-day activities.  These things will always stay, because they have profound ethical implications. Lives, quite literally, depend upon them. No matter what. Some things that are out. ...

Please excuse the future tense- I definitely started writing this the night before the protest and, through the miracle that is handling technology while operating a manufacturing business, this little treat is only making its way to you a couple of days late. No Climate Strike for me. Nobody at Zimt will be going, actually, though that doesn’t mean that we don’t believe it its value.  However, it is that value that I struggle with- and it is why I am not prioritizing attending. Maybe that’s the wrong decision, but when I step back and look at the day ahead, and...

As expressed in a previous blog post, the purpose of Zimt is not to make chocolate.  There are a number of topics that I’d like to delve into and, this one provides a great overview for the premise of these. It’s a topic that, unless you’re an economist (or just someone who can’t stop won’t stop analyzing),  you likely don’t think about too much- at least not in a broad sense.  Externalities are costs or benefits (spillover effects) to a third party, who is not directly involved in the primary market transaction, resulting from either the production and/or consumption of...