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Chocolate comes from the cacao tree, which grows in warm, rainy places like Central and South America, Africa, and parts of ...
"Nearly 20 years after pledging to eradicate child labor, chocolate companies still cannot identify the farms where all their cocoa comes from, let alone whether child labor was used in producing ...
This Juneteenth, a Colorado company is calling attention to the continued use of child and slave labor in the production of ...
Your Halloween chocolate may have been harvested by children forced to work in Africa The U.S. Department of Labor reports that more than 1.5 million children work in the cocoa industry in Ghana ...
As you guys know, we do a lot to ethically source our cacao, from paying our farmers a ‘Living Income Reference Price,’ using 100% Fairtrade certified beans and we audit and remediate child labor on ...
While cocoa gets the most attention from the chocolate industry when it comes to eliminating child labour, other ingredients like sugar, nuts or vanilla are also high risk.
To try to make companies abandon cocoa produced by child labor, International Rights Advocates has sued some of the world’s large chocolate companies. It lost a case before the Supreme Court in ...
MrBeast took on “big chocolate” with a scathing look at the cocoa industry, showing how he’s helping to end child labor on cocoa farms.
A case has been brought against the chocolate industry giant Cargill in the Washington D.C. Superior Court that alleges the company is using exploitative child labor. The case is focused on ...
While the chocolate industry has been under scrutiny for more than two decades, other sectors afflicted by child labour, mainly in agriculture, have failed to grab consumer attention to the same ...