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I love chocolate and eat some just about every day. Like most people, I never really gave much thought to where it comes from. I really had no idea. I do now, and it gives me grief to know what so many child workers, who are basically slaves, go through to harvest those cacao pods so we can all have a candy bar or a cup of cocoa, something they may never get to enjoy in their possibly short life, since most of them are beaten, starved, and overworked 7 days a week. I will keep eating chocolate,
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The Bitter Side of Sweet pulls you right in to the contemporary world of cacao harvesting. Amadou, 15, and his 6-year-old brother, Seydou, are at the mercy of the bosses, living and working in a camp in the jungle region of the Ivory Coast. Leaving their drought-ridden village to make money to support what's left of their family, the boys don't realize that they are not going to be able to leave, and are subjected to beatings and deprivation when they don't make quota or are insubordinate in any
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Ivory Coast, mali and choclate industry darkness from first person slave children
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