Most of the chocolate sold in the United States is produced with forced child labor.
That’s the take of Terry Collingsworth of International Rights Advocates.
Collingsworth wants the big chocolate companies – Nestle, Cargill, Mars, Mondelēz, Hershey, Barry Callebaut, and Olam – to stop the practice.
And he’s suing them under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
“Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana together produce about eighty percent of the world’s cocoa,” Collingsworth told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last month. “But Cote d’Ivoire probably has about 65 percent. It’s a huge producer of chocolate. The companies have direct relationships with small farmers. Each farmer has eight or ten acres where they grow cocoa. The companies pay so little that the farmers are forced to find the cheapest labor possible. They put kids that are
— source corporatecrimereporter.com | Jun 16, 2021