The True Cost Of Chocolate: Child Slaves Of Cocoa Farming

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@BelemVillaescusa 4 ай бұрын

I'm a Swiss citizen also an American. I live in México and I can atesst that this happens all over the world and not only with cocoa plantations. Exess consumption of anyting, clothing, gold, sandalwood, perfumes...and so on... we are all responsible for the abuse of marginalized people and destruction of the environment. Being aware of all this issues makes us buy in a more responsible maner. Thank you for your very enlightening investigation.

@michaelwolfe8888 5 ай бұрын

This was heartbreaking. Thank you for revealing the hard and sad conditions, and enslaving poverty, that underly so much of the chocolate industry.

@KhattaRapidus 5 ай бұрын

50:35 He sighed really deeply, after the question, because he doesn't want it to change.

@thethinkingman- 4 ай бұрын

the thing is everyone likes chocolate and countrys like africa like to make it and give it to everyone so its a win win

@tonytaf107 5 ай бұрын

I'm swiss and chocolate is part of our culture. I've known what's going on in Africa with cocoa beans and I've dramatically decreased my chocolate consumption. If EU and USA keep taking advantages of Africa and Latin America, people cannot complain of migration because those people have no choice than leaving their honeland to escape from such a harsh life. So if you consume, don't complain about migrants

@pacomeclark3422 5 ай бұрын

Well said, wow it's my first time to see this coming from an European, as Africans we coming in Europe or USA as immigrants because they always using, we work for them and we get nothing in returns, example look at the oil field it comes from Africa go to overseas to make right comes back in Africa but we need to give them money again to bring it back in Africa so that we can use it, the problem is why they can make it right in Africa n they pay from us, that's why immigration in overseas will never stop no matter what, the day the white will stop usin Africa, Africains also will stop coming in overseas as immigrants

@farble1670 5 ай бұрын

Stopping your own consumption is going to have a bigger impact than complaining about others in comments.

@thethinkingman- 4 ай бұрын

everyone likes chocolate so everyone should STOP complaining about it yes slaves like to do it but remember thats what they want to do

@deidradahl2802 4 ай бұрын

No one is taking advantage of migrants, but their corrupt government. Also, the migrants are not farming cocoa to benefit consumers overseas, they are farming it to earn. Chocolate is not must in many people's diets, and many are allergic to it. Migrants leave their country for various reasons, no matter how much money they are making. They pay up to $20, 000 to smugglers to get them to Europe and the USA, and that is the low end of the payment. My friend here in the USA has 2 jobs, and no more than $120.00 in the bank. One African after going back home, told a reporter that he was glad to have left Africa, because he was able to marry a second wife, and build another house. Many leave, because of greed.

@Red-Robin4 5 күн бұрын

@@thethinkingman- BECAUSE THEY ARE LITERALLY STARVING I DONT CALL THAT A CHOICE!!

@ironmaven1760 5 ай бұрын

this is a fantastic doc. thank you for uploading..I had absolutely no idea 😢..everytime I see chocolate now I'll think of this and those poor kids as well as the total destruction of the forest. As a mom to boys this really got to me. So much suffering in the world. I wish i could save each one of those sweet boys and give them a better life. I think I'll pass on the chocolate, thanks. ❤

@Flaschenteufel 5 ай бұрын

Just buy some chocolate with fair trade cocoa. There are so many brands these days

@reconquistahinduism346 5 ай бұрын

@@Flaschenteufel there is nothing like free choco trade. 99% chocos are prepared from forced child labour , exploitation , misery. Plus it is calories sense. Better to avoid chocolate altogether.

@alexisholder6653 4 ай бұрын

@@Flaschenteufeleven fair trade brands use child labor - watch the recent Last Week Tonight episode about it.

@rabka123-m8v 5 ай бұрын

The large corporations responsible should be prosecuted for criminal behaviour

@SionisMills 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

@johnofmalta 5 ай бұрын

So if we stop eating chocolate child labor will end?

@MaximumBabee 5 ай бұрын

Yes, because those nasty companies that buy coco from those poor kids will stop buying once they see that they can't get their money back 10x from us public. Once they stop buying, the kids will stop working that hard for free.

@johnofmalta 5 ай бұрын

@@MaximumBabeeI’ll sprinkle your tears onto my hot chocolate to bring out that umami flavor lolz

@winterMB91 5 ай бұрын

@@johnofmalta but I think those people losing their Job to feed their families and kids future i don't know really hard decisions

@hugoschmitz6649 5 ай бұрын

@@winterMB91 no, the companies will need adult worker which get more money and have more rights.

@calise. 5 ай бұрын

@@johnofmalta not at all. they’ll be sucked up by another child labor “job.” so they can still provide for their family with what little they have earned. if they earned anything at all. sad but true.

@susanpitt4742 5 ай бұрын

I have to say that I am ashamed of most of the comments here. No wonder there isn't the will to fix these appalling problems. Seems as though the human race is so selfish that just maybe we deserve the mess the planet is in. Serious fixes - 1. Make manufacturers declare where they sourced the coco - total transparency around where it comes from e.g. Ghana barcode model. 2. Don't buy from anyone who won't. 3. All agree to pay a little more, and insist that this goes back to farmers and their communities. 4. Oversight of the system with real penalties for all involved.

@pacomeclark3422 5 ай бұрын

Comment voulez-vous que l'Afrique evolue au moment que nous mêmes reduisons nos propres enfants en Esclave, parcequ'ils ne sont pas de la Cote d'Ivoir c'est vraiment pitier, et ce vieux monsieur qui fait le traffique des enfants de son propre pays, sincèrement il mérite la prison 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

@MayaLarsen-y3r 4 ай бұрын

I will never eat chocolate again 😢

@OnetiuCosmin 3 ай бұрын

This makes me give up chocolate for good

@Tocktail 5 ай бұрын

The EU needs to make multibillion multinational chocolate corporations paid at least 15% of the profits of the cocoa to cocoa farmers.

@beckyperry7752 5 ай бұрын

God sees all.

@josephkowhai9820 5 ай бұрын

Interesting but what's happening now?

@emilkarossie5574 5 ай бұрын

Ok you revealed their faces, did they face consequences for letting you film them or was it ok that you film ?

@mxolisimbatha9660 4 ай бұрын

"Charlie's oompaloompa"

@davidbrooks1724 5 ай бұрын

Same as I phones

@rainierzx9677 4 ай бұрын

Thats tough, anyway, time to dig in to this delicious chocolate bar

@BornToBeFree1973 5 ай бұрын

The more money, the bigger the LIE

@zinnsoldat6493 4 ай бұрын

500 chocolate bars

@honestandfair1572 3 ай бұрын

Chocolate Mafia

@honestandfair1572 3 ай бұрын

Horrible for the environment

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@GIBBO4182 5 ай бұрын

Worth it

@genageeraert8039 5 ай бұрын

There are also a lot of properly sourced chocolates. Not everything is bad. Every industry has those who don’t follow the rules and abuse people.

@Flaschenteufel 5 ай бұрын

Yep i thought of those countless fair trade chocolates. Surely the shown conditions are terrible but it's kind of saying all clowns are terrible because we had Gacy.

@alexisholder6653 4 ай бұрын

Watch the recent Last Week Tonight episode on this. The vast majority of chocolate involves slavery. Only one brand, Tony’s Chocolonely, adequately tracks their supply and ensures that no child/slave labor is used.

@Flaschenteufel 4 ай бұрын

@@alexisholder6653 idk about murica but there are other countries in the world...

@andreiadetavora8471 5 ай бұрын

I no longer eat chocolate because i got a milk alergy. It's not so bad... And seeing this, it's really not so bad. Maybe it's a good thing

@KhattaRapidus 5 ай бұрын

You lactose intolerant ****** just kidding, just kidding. *pats your head*

@JK_JK_JK_JK 5 ай бұрын

This makes me want to eat Chocolate!!! 🍫😎

@ironmaven1760 5 ай бұрын

Are you kidding me...if this doc doesn't make you NOT want to eat chocolate anymore I don't know what. The forest there is gone! They burn the trees and spray cancer causing chemicals all over the land and for what? So ppl in better countries can eat candy bars? You cannot be a mother and say that.... I'm sorry but for real...😢

@ann-mariepaliukenas19 5 ай бұрын

You can eat chocolate but make sure it’s 100 % fair trade.

@ironmaven1760 5 ай бұрын

@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 how's the average person supposed to do that though when the huge companies that " oversee" them can't even do it? it's impossible unfortunately..

@M.Campbell-Sherwood 5 ай бұрын

@@ironmaven1760The companies are monitored for years and then invited to be listed as Fairtrade. The packaging for Fairtrade products is then labeled. So they’re very easy to identify. There are some companies who are invited to join who do turn it down (due to the dues). Ghirardelli is one of them. Many companies are leaving the Coast for other areas of the world, now.

@Tracydot3 5 ай бұрын

@@ironmaven1760 There are many fair trade chocolate brands. It will say "fair trade" on the bar.

@anthurion1 5 ай бұрын

so its okay for you to rip people off, but not the other way? Hypocrite.

@jessicadonnelly2168 4 ай бұрын

The production of cacao should be managed better, big companies should pay more and child labour and trafficking should be completely illegal. If so much chocolate comes from Ivory Coast and so much chocolate is consumed globally, then the people of this country should be wealthy, their children should be in school and their forests should be full of life. All farmers there are being ripped off and they deserve much more.