The Pros and Cons of chocolate milk Harvesting Cacaochocolate trufflesIt has been alleged for some time that several of the chocolate producing countries employ slave labor to manufacture and produce their product. These are allegedly those on the Ivory Coast and the slaves are young boys between 12 and 16 years of age from countries like Benin, Togo and Mali. These young boys are usually found begging as they travel and are lured by promises of paid work, education and housing, what they find instead is forced labor and sever abuse while they work on the cacao farms. chocolate trufflesgourmet chocolateThe worlds largest produce and exporter of cocoa beans, the Ivory Coast and West Africa supply nearly 50% of the cocoa the world uses. On the more remote plantations, these conditions of slavery and exploitation are difficult to detect. A UNICEF report in 1998 showed that some of the Ivory Coast farmers did indeed use children who had been enslaved from neighboring countries that were poorer.The practice reached the public on a wide scale for the first time in 2001 with a British television documentary on slavery, the documentary claimed that 90% of the Ivory Coast plantations used forced slave labor; (a ship had been stopped near West Africa allegedly loaded with child slaves.) gourmet chocolatechocolate gift | chocolate truffles

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It has been alleged for some time that
several of the chocolate producing
countries employ slave labor to
manufacture and produce their product.
These are allegedly those on the Ivory
Coast and the slaves are young boys
between 12 and 16 years of age from
countries like Benin, Togo and Mali.

These young boys are usually found
begging as they travel and are lured by
promises of paid work, education and
housing, what they find instead is forced
labor and sever abuse while they work
on the cacao farms.
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The worlds largest produce and
exporter of cocoa beans, the Ivory
Coast and West Africa supply nearly
50% of the cocoa the world uses. On
the more remote plantations, these
conditions of slavery and exploitation
are difficult to detect. A UNICEF report
in 1998 showed that some of the Ivory
Coast farmers did indeed use children
who had been enslaved from
neighboring countries that were poorer.

The practice reached the public on a
wide scale for the first time in 2001 with
a British television documentary on
slavery, the documentary claimed that
90% of the Ivory Coast plantations used
forced slave labor; (a ship had been
stopped near West Africa allegedly
loaded with child slaves.)
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