Chocolate's Heart of Darkness: Child Labour in Ivory Coast The dark side of a $100bn industry where enslaved children work in cocoa fields for the chocolate we all love to eat.
26 Jul 2020 15:44 GMT Ivory Coast <https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/ivory-coast.html>, Child rights <https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/issues/children-rights.html>, Human Rights <https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/categories/human_rights.html>, Environment <https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/categories/environment.html>, Europe <https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/europe.html> https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2020/07/chocolate-heart-darkness-child-labour-ivory-coast-200725132126360.html *Editor's note: This film will be removed on August 25, 2020.* We often indulge ourselves and our loved ones with chocolate, but we rarely stop to think about how it gets from the cocoa tree to the sweet shop. This film, Chocolate's Heart of Darkness*,* goes to Ivory Coast, which produces about 40 percent of the world's cocoa. It tells the story of how thousands of children from neighbouring Burkina Faso and Ghana are trafficked to harvest cocoa pods. The children work long days with poisonous pesticides and dangerous tools, with little or no reward. The Ivory Coast farms and cooperatives then supply the cocoa to the biggest chocolate producers in the world. In this investigation into child labour and deforestation, we travel to Europe to ask the chocolate industry executives and members of the European Parliament why an industry worth more than $100bn every year is still involved in virtual slavery and environmental destruction. Source: Al Jazeera -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W-259z%2BVw-ERBmcecy75-h-r93rNr9Z7qKwWO_QCi6_vg%40mail.gmail.com.
