Happy Halloween: Beware These 10 Popular Chocolate Brands that Exploit Child Slaves [View all]

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Worker ages range from 11-16 (sometimes younger). They are trapped in isolated farms, where they work 80 to 100 hours a week. The film Slavery: A Global Investigation spoke with freed children who reported that they were often beaten with fists and belts and whips.

“The beatings were a part of my life,” Aly Diabate, a freed slave, told reporters. “Anytime they loaded you with bags (of cocoa beans) and you fell while carrying them, nobody helped you. Instead they beat you and beat you until you picked it up again.”

To help you avoid supporting slavery this Halloween, Here’s are ten chocolate companies that benefit from child slave labor:

Hershey

Mars

Nestle

ADM Cocoa

Guittard Chocolate Company

Godiva

Chocolates by Bernard Callebaut

Fowler’s Chocolate

Kraft

See’s Candies

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