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Chocolate - The Bitter Truth 1 of 5 - Ivory Coast Child Trafficking - BBC Panorama Investigation, recorded 08.05.2010 We spend more on chocolate each year than investors spend on gold - but as Easter approaches, how much do we really know about where it comes from or how it is made?

Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon goes undercover as a cocoa trader in West Africa and discovers children as young as seven working long hours on cocoa farms, helping to make the chocolate we love so much. He buys a tonne of cocoa made with child labour, and sees how easy it is to sell it into the supply chain which leads to our high streets.

He also helps rescue a 12-year-old boy - trafficked across borders - to pick cocoa as a modern-day slave and reunites him with his mother. For the first time, we meet the kids who harvest our cocoa but who have never tasted chocolate.

Tracing the bitter truth of chocolate and child labour, Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon poses as a cocoa dealer to uncover the extent of child labour in the chocolate trade.

Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rqm4n .

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  • Another way corporations fuck the world daily.

  • @HWGuyEG Yes, ants get into candy bars at the production facilities, but what you're seeing here is the source of the chocolate the production facilities use. Most of the chocolate you buy in the US is made with what these kids are enslaved to harvest. inform yourself, boycott Mars/M&M candy bars and Hershey products.

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  • The entire planet is in chaos. As the US Fed Govt, the UN, NATO cause war across the globe to PLACE the debt based IMF Rothschild banking system globally, the very same system America has suffered under since this nations inception, CENTRAL banking.....ALLOWS the majority of the planet to starve, is beaten, & enslaved. Have you noticed? Do you know what our history tells us, WHAT corrupt corporations & unethical banking institutions in America & across the globe are planning for all humanity?

  • Hey, I'm doing a speech about this documentary - I've watched it a trillion times but I really need to find the part where kenyon says that the interview footage couldn't be taken and he just quoted what was said.. Thankyou very much!

  • Another way corporations *uck the world daily.

  • too bad

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