The Dark Side of Chocolate

Marketplace
01/11/2008

Doug Krizner: A group of U.S. lawmakers are in West Africa this week. They're looking at child labor abuses at cocoa plantations.

Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producing country and the lifeblood of the global chocolate industry, but as Gretchen Wilson reports, that industry depends on child slave labor.

Gretchen Wilson: Both the State Department and UNICEF have documented forced child labor in the Ivory Coast. A report by the International Labor Rights Fund estimates 200,000 children work in that country's cocoa plantations. The report says many of those kids are used to spread pesticides.

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