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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I have been able to find out. There is no such thing as ethically produced chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tony's Chocoloney arguably sets the standard for ethically produced chocolate.

Other labels on chocolate like "Fair Trade" warn the farmers they're coming for inspection. It's strange how the farms they visit never have children working..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If chocolate dealers (not necessarily the commercial entities we buy the finished product from) would pay farmers an actual reasonable wage, they wouldn't bring their kids in to work to make ends meet.