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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana (www.cbsnews.com)

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 21 points 9 months ago

John Oliver did a great show on chocolate around Halloween time. It showed just how much child labor goes into producing chocolate for the world, when almost no one really spends any time thinking about where it comes from.

[-] spriteblood@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

Here's the source for anybody curious:

https://youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=UdaMXa7uJTqgZniu

Def worth a watch. Tony's chocolate looks like a good alternative.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks for posting the video, I was on mobile and was already late on my break.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

The CNN clip in that video, is even better: the reporter gives the guys a bar of chocolate, and they go all "ohh, it tastes so great!". Then he asks them if they'll give any to the children, to which the guy answer "they can have the wrappers"... at which point the reporter produces out a second bar saying "don't worry, give them this"... still, I don't recall the kids getting any.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I enjoyed the part with the other journalist where he was on the phone with someone who hung up when the reporter pointed out that kids could stop working if their parents made more money. Insane that he was defending that practice.

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