The Dark Side of Chocolate - Trailer from federal court system structure Watch Video

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✓ Published: 31-Mar-2024

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'The Dark Side of Chocolate' is a documentary about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labor in the international chocolate industry.<br/> <br/>While we enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is strikingly different for African children. <br/> <br/>In 2001 consumers around the world were outraged to discover that child labor and slavery, trafficking, and other abuses existed on <br/>cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, a country that produces nearly half the world's cocoa. An avalanche of negative publicity and consumer <br/>demands for answers and solutions soon followed. <br/> <br/>Two members of US Congress, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Representative Eliot Engel of New York, tackled the issue by adding a rider to an agricultural bill proposing a federal system to certify and label chocolate products as \