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-Unpaid work is slavery
-Most have never eaten chocolate
-The majority of child workers are slaves
-This way large chocolate companies get cocoa from dirt cheap labor
- About 1.8 million children are involved in what is called the "worst forms of child labor"
- These include things "likely to harm the health, safety, or morals of children"
or anything that does not allow them to go to school
-Usually between ages 12-16
-As young as 5 years old
-Some work for a year, but others work most of life
-Some children are sold to be workers on cocoa farms (child trafficking)
-Some are tricked into thinking they will be paid well
-Others are not paid for their work, which means . . .
-Work starts at 6 A.M. and ends when it gets dark
-Many children do not have a chance to go to school and get an education
-The Engel-Harkin Protocol was signed in Sept. 2001 by large chocolate corporations
-No child labor by 2005
-Extention to 2008
-New treaty signed in 2010
-70% less child labor by 2020
-The chocolate companies that use cocoa beans made with child labor can pay the farmers fair prices
-Then cocoa workers would not need child labor
-Hershey's, Mars, and Nestle make enough resources to pay cocoa farmers fairly and stop child labor/slavery
-Only buy chocolate that is fair trade approved
-Hershey's, Mars, Nestle, and others are aware of child labor
- They have done little to nothing
-The chocolate industry makes $60 billion annually
-The West African countries of Ghana and the Ivory Coast produce about 70% of the cocoa beans used to make chocolate in the world
-They supply large companies such as Hershey's, Mars, Nestle, and others
-Large companies need cheap chocolate ingredients
-Pay cocoa workers very little
-Cocoa Workers make an average of $2 per day
-Below poverty line
-The workers want to stay competitive and need to survive