Why should consumers be concerned about cocoa?
• Much of the chocolate we enjoy every day in the United States is made from cocoa beans that have been harvested by illegal child labor. • The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture and the US State Department estimated that 284,000 children work in dangerous conditions on cocoa farms in West Africa, 64 percent of which are under 14 years old. • Highly respected news outlets, including the BBC, have reported on outright child slavery in the cocoa fields of West Africa. • The US is the world’s largest importer of cocoa, consuming annually more than three billion pounds of chocolate.
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