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Next time you unwrap a candy bar, consider this: an estimated 2.3 million children work in the cocoa fields of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. A number of major chocolate companies such as Nestlé, Mars and Hershey are a part of this problem and moreover, have acknowledged their usage of child slavery in their chocolate production. Despite this fact, many of these big league chocolate companies have yet to take meaningful action against the practice.
On the other side of the spectrum, Amsterdam-based chocolate company Tony’s Chocolonely wants to change the entire industry, one chocolate bar at a time. Their objective? To make chocolate 100% slave free, not only their own, but chocolate worldwide. The company has been fighting modern slavery within the chocolate industry for the past 13 years.
In a nutshell, the problem lies within the chocolate supply chain, which begins with cocoa farmers and ends with you enjoying your chocolate bar. Large chocolate companies want to make as much profit as possible which often times means that farmers are left at the short end of the stick not being able to make a living income from cocoa. Essentially farmers are not able to ‘price’ their beans, creating a poverty trap that in turn leads to child labor and modern slavery.
