Washington Post: Hershey, Nestlé and Mars won’t promise their chocolate is free of child labor
Nestlé, Hershey and Mars are three of the world’s largest chocolate companies. Over the past few years, we have reported on the unethical ways they exploit child labor. It is worth saying again that twenty years ago these companies vowed to remove child labor from their operations. However, today they are STILL unable to confirm that child labor is not involved in the production of their chocolate. West Africa supplies around two-thirds of the world’s cocoa. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor stated that over 2 million children were involved in the hazardous process of gathering cocoa –...
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