It was discovered in a scandalous secret chocolate industry: lawsuits waiting largest producers

Did you know that enjoying the Swiss chocolate support and finance the enslavement of Africa? From clearing of green forests, to child labor

A lawsuit filed recently in which accuse the world's largest producers of chocolate in particular that the Swiss knowingly exploit children as workers in Africa.School "Milton Hershey" Pennsylvania is one of the richest educational institutions in the world. It was founded in 1909 as an orphanage for "white" boys, and awarded her 30 percent of the company's future earnings Milton S. Hershey after his death.

Thanks to the success of chocolate such as "Kit-Kat", "Reeses' and 'Whoppers' school is now worth a whopping $ 7.8 billion.New Today there are approximately 2,000 students, and the school has a controlling interest in the company worth 22.3 Hersheyevoj milijrde dollars, the world famous chocolatier. Heavy irony is that the institution whose roots are in the care and education of children, according to the charges, relying on cocoa harvested child workers in West Africa.

"Daily Beast" says that this is the irony that serves as a motive for the lawsuit that was filed against "Hershey" and its two competitors, the company "Mars" and "Nestle". The lawsuit filed by three citizens of California says that these companies guilty of false advertising, because they do not reveal to rely on child labor slaves during packaging.

Manufacturers forcing customers to support slave labor. Without such recognition, companies cheating consumers and lead them to unwittingly supporting child slave labor."The largest and most profitable US food conglomerates should not tolerate child labor, much less child labor slaves, anywhere within the supply chain" - writes in the complaint.This lawsuit is a new approach to an old problem: a deep, dark not so hidden scandalous secret chocolate industry. 15 years ago appeared the first allegations regarding slave labor of children within this industry that attracted the anger of the American public.

In West Africa is two-thirds of cocoa plantations in the world. This is the main ingredient of chocolate around which was created industry worth $ 90 billion.

• 27 Mar, 2016
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