With easter approaching chocolate is on the minds of Canadian kids.
In fact Canadians will eat 6.5kg each this year. What isn't however talked about in the ads for cute milk chocolate bunnies created by hershey and other conglomerates, is that 70% of the world chocolate comes from a tiny country in west Africa called Ghana. Where children are forced to work in the Cocoa bean fields. They are sold to the harvesters for 20 dollars americain and forced to work until they are big enough to fight back and escape. The kids are kept in camps miles out into the jungle.
The problem is the country is so poor that almost every citizen lives in squalor. The parents are the people forcing the kids. It is really disgusting really. Chocolate never tasted to good to me... but now it tastes like blood.
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