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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

And, according to John Oliver, even the chocolate companies that try to only source their product from child labor-free sources, they say they can't guarantee it. That's how much and how often children are used on these farms.

After seeing that John Oliver report, I'm never eating chocolate again. All I would be able to do would be to think of those kids.

And yes, I realize that other products I have are made from child labor, but chocolate is a pretty easy one to give up.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The organizations fighting child labor in Ghana pretty much focus on getting the kids into school at all. It's a success story to enable a kid to go to school 5 days and only work on the cocoa farms 1 day a week. Completely eradicating it is impossible as long as families depend on that to make a living.

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