A group of local teenagers was abuzz over the price of a single candy bar at the new Bushwick Food Co-op: $3.10, plus tax.

Why so much, they asked, when a candy bar costs a dollar or less at the neighborhood bodega?

But this was no bodega candy: It was Equal Exchange fair-trade chocolate, sold alongside milk from grass-fed cows, pasture-raised chicken and produce from the Finger Lakes region.

Besides, explained the co-op’s general manager, Amanda Pitts, the bodega’s chocolate was produced using child and slave labor. “You can pay a little bit more, you can get a really high-quality bar and know that you’re not supporting slave-trading,” she said.