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May 12, 2005

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." --Charles Darwin

Chocolate

While chocolate is sweet for us, it is heartbreaking for cocoa producers and their families. In 2001, The US State Department reported child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms, the origin of 43 percent of the world's cocoa. Global Exchange has been demanding that the US chocolate industry solve this crisis by selling Fair Trade chocolates. Fair Trade is a brand that verifies cocoa farmers are being paid a living wage, with enough to send their kids to school.