BlueKat posted...
I prefer almond and cashew butter and pretty much all chocolate is the product of slave labor, often of children, so...
I checked this. It is verified by reliable sources. I mostly drink Abulita which is from Mexico and I will look into how it it harvested there.
"The beans are in pods that must be cut open with machetes, making the work quite dangerous, especially for children."
Traffickers offer work that will let children send money home but the children are sold when they arrive.
"In 2021, six Malian men filed a legal case against Nestle USA and Cargill, claiming that they were trafficked from their villages and forced to labor on cacao farms. The case was brought to the United States Supreme Court with a majority ruling that chocolate companies cannot be sued in the United States for abuse that happened elsewhere, including for child slavery on African farms."
https://theconversation.com/some-chocolate-has-a-dark-side-to-it-child-labor-179271
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You can buy slave free chocolate
'Organic chocolate, sold by such U.S. companies as Newmans Own and Dagoba, is also slave free, since organic farms are subject to their own independent monitoring system that checks labor practices.'
https://kathleeniscookinginmexico.wordpress.com/tag/chocolate-child-slavery/