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BBC documentary, Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

The next time you crunch into a Kit-Kat or Hersheys chocolate bar, or eat a birthday cake topped with chocolate frosting, consider this: a young, uneducated, unpaid, malnourished West African child has likely cut open the cacao fruits that held the cocoa seeds of the chocolate which you are now eating. This child is working in Ghana or the Ivory Coast (combined, the two countries provide 60% of global cocoa) and has been trafficked from Burkina Faso.

( for Global Health Hub)

(via thatnigeriankid)

Source: globalhealthhub.org
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    Eh… child labor is an issue for the entire country, not just that industry. If there’s really going to be a solution, it...
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    Reasons why I’m against Cadbury’s and all of that etc etc Just makes me so sad.
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    hmm. def need to check this out.
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