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| Child Labourers Working on Cacao Farm Taken from Forbes |
Chocolate is produced and sold throughout the world, even
in North Korea where Coca Cola hasn’t yet penetrated the market. But there are
some who have never before seen a chocolate bar and who can never afford to
purchase one. The sad truth about most chocolate is that it is all a sweet façade –
a front for a history of exploitation and abuse beginning in the eighteenth
century when European aristocracy became addicted to our favourite sweet treat
compliments of the Aztecs, and persisting to this day as smallholder farmers in
some of the least developed countries produce cocoa for next to nothing to meet rising international demand.
