CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved chocolates like M&Ms and Snickers. Debora Patta reports.
    • danciestlobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Fair trade is quite a fallable system too unfortunately. And the honest answer is it isn’t truly known what chocolate has slavery involved for just regular child labor but it is fairly safe to assume most at least are likely to involve it, even fair trade and other similar certifications

      • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yea apparently the farms know in advance about the inspections and move the kids somewhere else during inspection and they’re back the next day.