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The World's Chocolate Industry Depends on Child Laborers
The world's chocolate companies depend on cocoa produced with the aid of more than 1 million West African child laborers, according to a new report sponsored by the Labor Department. Most of those were involved in tasks considered hazardous, such as wielding machetes and carrying heavy loads or working with pesticides. "I have no faith in that any politician really can make any changes because they have had so many options to get rid of this problem," she says.