Trick or Treat? Chocolate made with child labor

Trick or Treat? Chocolate made with child labor


Hidden Halloween horror in cocoa production





Halloween candy is a treat for many children, but for those forced to work on cocoa farms in west Africa it's a mean and tortuous trick. Two professors at Washington University in St. Louis call attention to the exploitation of children and efforts to end it in the chocolate industry in an op-ed piece published today by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21416.aspx