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Dark chocolate is favorite treat of mine. It’s disappointing to read that if I indulge in the the creamy and bitter treat I just might be contributing to abusive child labor in Africa. Read an excerpt from the End Human Trafficking blog on Change.org:
What do you think is the secret ingredient of a Hershey bar? Sugar, milk, or cocoa? What about the slave labor of thousands of children? Across Western Africa, and especially in the Ivory Coast, children are held in slavery and exploitative labor situations. And it’s all in the name of chocolate produced by the world’s leading corporations.
Children enslaved and abused in the cocoa industry are made to work excruciatingly long days, and are often beaten if they try and leave or refuse to work. Many have been forced to pick cocoa with open wounds, or covered in their own excrement. The cocoa farms of the Ivory Coast where some of the worst cases of child slavery and labor exploitation have been found are also the world’s largest supplier of cocoa, making up 40% of the global market. The Hershey Company, on their website, specifically mentions sourcing cocoa from the Ivory Coast and Western Africa.
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