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