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Child labor: the dark side of chocolate

2020-10-25T06:59:45.864Z


In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, children grow the cocoa for our chocolate. Why is that? And what can you do about it? "Your SPIEGEL" explains it.


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On a cocoa plantation in a village in Ivory Coast, a boy uses a machete to harvest the large fruits in which the cocoa beans are stuck

Photo: DANIEL ROSENTHAL / LAIF

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This sack of cocoa, which the porter drags through a plantation in Ivory Coast, weighs 80 kilograms - as much as a full-grown man

Photo: DANIEL ROSENTHAL / LAIF

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After children and adults have fetched the fruit from the trees, the cocoa is dried on a tarpaulin

Photo: André Quillien / Alamy / mauritius images

Source: spiegel

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