His name is Yacouba Diarra, he is 14 and he is a child slave.
Smuggled across the boarder he was brought to the cocoa-producing heartland in Ivory Coast from his village in Mali by trackers who promised him $135 for a year’s labor.
Archive for January, 2009
Chocolate with a bitter taste
How fair is “fair”?
Switzerland is said to be the land of where the finest of all chocolate is produced. The question is: what is it that makes chocolate so fine? Is it the smooth taste? Is it its consistency? The quality of the ingredients used? Yes, it´s all that. But there are some more aspects that one could or should pay attention to.
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