Why is it better to support companies who sell fair-trade chocolate?
If you buy from companies that only sell fair-trade chocolate, then you know that you are NOT supporting “slave labor” in Africa. The majority of the organic, fair-trade cacao comes from co-ops in South and Central America, with some farms now converting in Ghana and a few in South East Asia. There is a lot of information on the web about this pressing issue, and Nestle is the first company actually being taken to court in February 2008 in Los Angeles for their unfair labor practices in Africa. This is only the beginning. Many more giants of industry will be called to task. A 1998 report from UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, concluded that some Ivory Coast farmers use enslaved children, many of them from the poorer neighboring countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo. A report by the International Labour Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, also found that trafficking in children is widespread in West Africa. The practice first reached a wider public in 2001 wit
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