Note: More and more researchers are saying that chocolate is a good food. However this article looks at the darker side of the chocolate industry. If you wish to avoid supporting human slavery and suffering in this area, make sure that the chocolate you buy is both organic and fair trade.
The truth behind the chocolate is anything but sweet. On the Ivory Coast of Africa, the origin of nearly half of the world's cocoa, hundreds of thousands of children work or are enslaved on cocoa farms. With poverty running rampant and average cocoa revenues ranging from $30-$108 per household member per year, producers have no choice but to utilize child labor for dangerous farming tasks. Some children, seeking to help their poor families, even end up as slaves on cocoa farms far from home. Slavery drags on and we are paying the slaveholder's wages.
The Dark Side of Chocolate
