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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The CNN clip in that video, is even better: the reporter gives the guys a bar of chocolate, and they go all "ohh, it tastes so great!". Then he asks them if they'll give any to the children, to which the guy answer "they can have the wrappers"... at which point the reporter produces out a second bar saying "don't worry, give them this"... still, I don't recall the kids getting any.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I enjoyed the part with the other journalist where he was on the phone with someone who hung up when the reporter pointed out that kids could stop working if their parents made more money. Insane that he was defending that practice.