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World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation finds

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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation finds

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World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved chocolates like M&Ms and Snickers. Debora Patta reports.

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Chocolate gives me the runs so I avoid it. I figure the diarrhea is from my allergy to child labor. Same thing happened when I ate an iPhone
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  Are you by any chance a dog?
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    If they were a dog, I suspect they’d have mentioned periodically vomiting the chocolate up so they could eat it again.
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