Teun van de Keuken

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Teun van de Keuken (born 1971) is a Dutch producer of television and radio programs who established a reputation investigating fair trade and production practices in the food industry; he founded the chocolate company Tony's Chocolonely. He debuted in 2017 as a novelist.

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Biography

Television and investigative journalism

Van de Keuken was born to strongly left-wing parents (his father was documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken [1] ), and referred to the environment in his parents' house as a "secular Calvinism". He became known for the program Keuringsdienst van waarde, which focused on problems in food production, [2] including slavery and child labor. [3] Research for this show led him to focus on chocolate. He sought publicity and a verdict by the courts on slave labor by eating chocolate bars made with slave labor, and asking to be arrested as an accessory to the crime of employing child slaves. [4] In the end he created what he called "slave-free chocolate", manufactured following fair trade conventions, under the brand Tony's Chocolonely. [5] In 2011, 51% of the company was bought by businessman Henk Jan Beltman. In a 2016 documentary about him called Tony, Van de Keuken said that it was all to no avail, that slave labor still was part of the manufacturing chain; Beltman accepted that as a challenge to continue the struggle against slavery in the cocoa trade. [6]

He made other investigative journalistic productions such as De slag om Brussel and De slag om Nederland, and in 2014 published a collection of articles on food, food production, and certification marks. [5] Since 2015 he has presented De Monitor, an investigative journalism program. [2]

Authorship

Also a columnist since the mid-2000s, he published his first novel, Goed Volk ("Good people"), in 2017. The book, partially autobiographical, [2] [7] deals with growing up in Amsterdam and attending public schools; the author's parents made a point of sending him to schools attended by lower-class children, where he felt like an outsider [8] and was used as a political statement. Johan van der Keuken is not mentioned by name, though the first-person narrator is called "Teun". Vrij Nederland called the novel "semi-autobiographical" and qualified it as a coming of age novel, in which the narrator develops from being deeply ashamed of his parents and particularly his father to appreciating him as a man with good intentions. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 Van Velzen, Joost (4 February 2017). "Teun van de Keuken: 'Een opvoeding kan nooit echt slagen'". Trouw (in Dutch).
  3. ↑ Schutten, Henk (24 December 2014). "Bij Tony Chocolonely draait het niet alleen om winst maken". Het Parool (in Dutch).
  4. ↑ Hordijk, Kevin (7 December 2005). "Teun van de Keuken vecht als Nederlandse Willy Wonka tegen de choco-kinderslavernij" (in Dutch).
  5. 1 2 Van der Waals, Kelli (19 September 2014). "Teun van de Keuken: 'Vertrouw niks en ga zelf koken'". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch).
  6. ↑ Houtekamer, Carola (28 May 2016). "Ik denk zwart-wit, niet grijs". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch).
  7. ↑ Roodnat, Joyce (1 February 2017). "Zonen en lieverds". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch).
  8. ↑ "Teun van de Keuken zet zich af tegen jeugd". NU.nl (in Dutch). 26 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Vullings, Jeroen (3 February 2017). "Hoe Teun van de Keuken het statement van zijn linkse ouders moest zijn". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch).
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