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Here's their promise to never use forced labour for their cocoa.

There's also the Tony's open chain: a pledge by many companies (not just eu, also us) to use only ethically sourced cocoa. The companies are: here

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[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the children YEARN for the nestle mines, we NEED that chocolate

[โ€“] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

mines

Everyone knows chocolate is hunted! /s

[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I think chocolate is just the distilled blood and tears of third world children. Wait, that's nestle only? Damn, it must grow on trees then.

[โ€“] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It basically is. Back in 2005, when inspecting cocoa plantations used for example by Nestlรฉ, they found six-year-olds bought as slaves climbing the trees with baskets and harvesting cocoa using machete-like big knives that regularly caused the children to lose their hands or arms, in which case the child was thrown away and a new one was bought to replace it. Children were observed with scars in their shoulders half a centimetre (about ยผ inch) deep from carrying heavy baskets attached to their shoulders by ropes.

To my knowledge, this has not changed in the last 20 years, except that nowadays there are quite many slavery-free chocolates available, so the number of those plantations has probably decreased?

Chocolate comes from slaves, and the slaves are essentially hunted.