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Feb. 14th, 2003 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfMeep.
cocoa beans imported from the Ivory Coast -- used to make nearly half the chocolate consumed in this country -- are harvested in large part by children, some as young as 9, and many of whom are considered slaves, trafficked from desperately poor countries like Mali and Burkina Faso.
(You have to click through a really tacky ad to read through the rest of the article, but I think it's worth it.) No more Ferrerro Rocher for me, which I shall lament at least a tiny bit.
cocoa beans imported from the Ivory Coast -- used to make nearly half the chocolate consumed in this country -- are harvested in large part by children, some as young as 9, and many of whom are considered slaves, trafficked from desperately poor countries like Mali and Burkina Faso.
(You have to click through a really tacky ad to read through the rest of the article, but I think it's worth it.) No more Ferrerro Rocher for me, which I shall lament at least a tiny bit.
