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Globally, chocolate is a 80 billion US dollars market. This is the size of the economies of the 21 poorest countries in Africa. Only 6 to 8 percent of the chocolate revenues make it back to the cocoa farmers.
Child labor and slavery have been found in many of the plantations that supply cocoa to major chocolate brands.
One of the most common pesticides used on cocoa in West Africa is lindane, a toxic organochlorine cousin of DDT. Not exactly healthy for the farmers, and not healthy for you either if there are pesticide residues in the harvest.
Organic fair trade chocolate is widely available! No pesticides, and often with a richer taste. Look for these when you shop for chocolate.
According to the International Cocoa Organization, about 4 million tons of chocolate is produced every year (4.082 million tons of chocolate was produced in 2010).
A movie about the chocolate industry, and the child trafficking and slavery issues.
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