Why You Can’t Even Enjoy Chocolate Anymore [VIDEO]
The world’s love of chocolate borders on irrational. What is truly irrational — and sad, unjust, enraging — are the conditions under which some of it is made. Share this video and end this injustice once and for all. Thousands of children’s lives depend on it.
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There is so much to bedisturbed about in this video that I distilled it to the “lowlights” for you:
(1:20) The journeyinto darkness begins at a chocolate industry fair in Cologne, Germany.
(5:00) Investigating child smuggling in Mali.
(9:20) The interruption of a trafficking attempt inprogress, and an interview with the rescued 12-year-old girl.
(16:30) We see actual trafficking in progress, from Maliinto the Ivory Coast.
(21:55) An overview of the worldwide chocolate productionprocess, from bean to bar.
(23:20) A cocoa exporter denies the existence of childtrafficking and slavery in cocoa harvesting.
(29:00) The investigative crew goes to the supplierplantations to see for themselves.
(38:45) A confrontation with the exporter to reveal theirfindings.
(44:00) A trip to Nestlé’s headquarters in Switzerlanddisplays, to its face, the truly dark side of chocolate.