Most people like chocolate but most people probably didn’t know was chocolate is harvested by children they probably pay them next to nothing and they charge a fortune for those chocolate bars
Most of the children laboring on cocoa farms are between the ages of 12 and 16, but reporters have found children as young as 5
coerced to work without pay , Aziz who worked for five years without payment, starting when he was 15 years old , same farm named Ali worked for six years without being paid .
In 2020 Hershey’s bought approximately 30,000 tons of cocoa on an exchange in order to avoid paying this extra price.
an effort to improve farmer incomes reveals how much it values profit over workers’ lives.
Since the holidays are here there will probably be a lot of chocolate given as gifts
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershey-nestle-mars-chocolate-child-labor-west-africa/
www.cbsnews.com/news/children-harvesting-cocoa-used-by-major-corporations-ghana/
foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slavery-chocolate/
h/t George Kaplan