This first one is absolutely mind-blowing. Since 2002, hundreds of thousands of children have been kidnapped or sold to plantations all along the ivory coast as laborers for the Chocolate and Coffee industry. It is not only very illegal but it is modern-day slavery.
Here's some resources:
UCSD's website: Chocolate Slavery
International Labor Rights Forum
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Theo is one of the only fair trade chocolate that is truly all ingredients against slavery.
http://love146.org/slavery is an amazing group working to combat the sale of human beings. There are some amazing local groups forming as we have a problem right here in Seattle with this very thing. Thanks for posting people need to be aware.
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