weirdbeardgameCandy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Also known as slaves, since they are not paid, not allowed to go to school or leave, and beaten and cut as punishment.
Stop eating slave chocolate, folks.
There is ethical chocolate available.
What if we keep eating slave chocolate, but we make the slave owners buy “freedom cocoa” credits from places where cocoa is being farmed ethically already?
Then we’ll be prolonging unnecessary child slavery and abuse.
They’re slave owners, their profit margin is pretty wide and their industry standards are not very strict, as you might imagine.
The most effective way to end trafficking/slavery linked to chocolate is to stop buying slave chocolate.
It’s mocking carbon credits.