The global movement of consumers, investor and workers around the world, SumOfUs, has launched a new sign petition campaign that has the main objective to stop cocoa slavery.
According to SomeOfUS, more than 2 million children work in cocoa plantations chopping with machetes and applying toxic chemicals. Some of those children are also victims of trafficking and modern-day slavery.
The situation in the cocoa plantations is linked directly to the greed of a handful of mega corporations which depend on cocoa for their products. Ferrero represents a staggering 8.8% of the global chocolate market, and reported revenues of $10 billion in 2015. In contrast, most of the five million smallholder farmers who produce the world’s cocoa live well below the poverty line.
Read original article at actions.sumofus.org
17 December 2016Original Author: SumOfUs
