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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

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Nearly half the world's cocoa comes from Ivory Coast farms, and in 2001 reporting on child labor, trafficking, and slavery there set off a wave of consumer outrage against the companies that buy it. Senator Tom Harkin and Representative Eliot Engel pushed a federal "slave free" labeling requirement through the House, prompting Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Mars, Hershey's, Nestle, and Barry Callebaut to head off the law with a voluntary pledge, the Harkin-Engel Protocol, promising to end abusive child labor on cocoa farms by 2005. Filmmakers Miki Mistrati and U Roberto Romano go back to the farms to check the industry's own promise against reality, tracing how the 2005 deadline slipped to 2008, then to 2010, with the same complaints still on the ground. Their investigation follows the money and the paperwork from plantation to boardroom, asking why an industry that spent years and millions of dollars on the problem never managed to certify a single farm as child-labor free.