Chocolate The Bitter Truth 1 of 5 Child Trafficking BBC Panorama Investigation

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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[theonlycarmire]

The sound of that chocolate being poured sounds like fapping.

[RuniTravel]

So it does ... In the region drumming is an elemental source of communication ...

[The4LA2Baker0]

Another way corporations fuck the world daily.

[nomadnelraf]

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.

[Matthew Walthius]

And consumers.

[shaququ]

it would probably be too expensive if it wasnt done this way. chocolate is merely a fraction of all the good we import form poor countries. dont feel sorry for the children, be thankful. its thanks to exploitation that we can live like this, while they suffer. dont be a hypocrite. if you feel so sorry about them, then stop eating chocolate, simple as that. every dollar bill is a voting ticket.

[TeaPips]

Enough with the chocolate sound effects already.

[David Hammash]

Fuck Capitalism......

[J1nrai]

in moderation it's actually beneficial

[Brandyn Pryce]

NOBODY SHOULD BE EATING ANY CHOCOLATE ANYWAYS. ITS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH

[Brandyn Pryce]

Yet, they win!

[greghar2003]

I agree.  Thanks for your input.

Although, I already boycott many food companies like, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Pepsi Co's., etc... due to GMO's or Fetus food flavoring/processing. Alternate choices are getting rare and problems just keep mounting, it seems.

[Kojow7]

The trouble is that boycotting chocolate may not be the best thing to do either as many legitimate plantation owners would suffer as well. It's a tough call and each person should think about what they as an individual should do ethically. One thing that is definitely important though is raising awareness.

[greghar2003]

Nope, didn't know that one. Thanks.

Although, I don't really eat much chocolate these days, except for an occasional klondike bar or choc syrup on a sundea.

The world we live in is so perverted nowadays. Can't eat anything it seems without being poisoned or matters such as this.