Child slave labor on cocoa farms in West Africa is still a big problem. West Africa supplies 70 percent of the world’s cocoa supply. In a previous article, The Child Slave Labor In Most Chocolate Bars I cited a Tulane University report that found 25 to 50 percent of the children in households in the [...]
Macy’s Needs To Stop Selling Dirty Gold
Dec 10th, 2011
Gold mining is one of the most polluting industries on the planet. Gold is commonly extracted through “heap leaching,” which crushes the ore, piles it into heaps and sprays the heaps with cyanide, and the run-off cyanide is stored in artificial ponds for re-use. This process can take decades, and contamination of the environment around [...]
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The Child Slave Labor In Most Chocolate Bars
Nov 14th, 2011
mhiguera /Foter I love chocolate, and there are few things sweeter to me than eating a chocolate bar. I suppose you could say that I had an epiphany last year after watching the documentary, The Dark Side of Chocolate. One of the definitions of an epiphany is “a sudden intuitive realization or perception of [...]