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Mmmmmmm chocolate!  Melt in your mouth, satisfying, sheer pleasure for most of us.  But there's a secret ingredient that you probably don't know about.  Click the chocolate below to find out what it is.


It's Child Slavery

43% of the chocolate used in America for everything from candy bars to cake mixes to chocolate milk comes from the Ivory Coast of Africa, where the State Department estimates that as many as 15,000 child slaves work on Ivory Coast's cocoa, cotton and coffee plantations.  Sold, lured, and kidnapped, these children who have never tasted processed chocolate face beatings and brutal living conditions in order to bring us the treat that many of us treasure dearly.  The chocolate industry says it's trying to help, but they are fighting in Congress to avoid labeling chocolate "Slave Free", the way tuna cans are listed as being Dolphin Safe.

  • Click here for the article which originally broke the story. 
  • Click here to find out why boycotting isn't the best answer, and what you can do to really make a difference.
  • Click here to find out which companies use chocolate from the Ivory Coast, and which one's don't (Hershey and Nestle both do).