"And on an even more serious note and what we know even less about is how
the chocolate comes to be. 70% of the cocoa beans that are used to
comprise the world’s chocolate, come from West Africa. Harvesting cocoa
beans is a tough job and farmers in West Africa are struggling to pay
their workers despite the popularity of the bean.
To combat this issue, farmers have begun including their own children
in the industry, to help harvest beans and work on the farms. Sadly,
it has gone a step further and they have resorted to child labour;
literally using children to perform long hours of backbreaking labour
for little to no pay. They are forced to work with hazardous materials,
fire, chemicals and knives."
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